[PATCH 3/5] docs: security-bugs: clarify what counts as a valid version
Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 22:35:38 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.workflows,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Too often we're getting reports saying "still valid in latest mainline" with no indication of when this was verified, making this indication pointless. Let's clarify it and insist on having a version or commit ID, and that the version must necessarily be for a kernel.org kernel and not a distro one. Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> --- Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst b/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst index 3c51ddde31dd9..6f7c21515e9ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ information is helpful. The following information are absolutely necessary in **any** security bug report: * **affected kernel version range**: with no version indication, your report + will not be processed. Note that a time-dependent version such as "latest + mainline" is not acceptable. A stable identifier such as a commit ID or an + exact version is required. Versions designating kernels not coming from + kernel.org (such as distro kernels) are meaningless to maintainers and will not be processed. A significant part of reports are for bugs that have already been fixed, so it is extremely important that vulnerabilities are verified on recent versions (development tree or latest stable -- 2.52.0