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| author | Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> | 2026-05-09 11:47:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2026-05-12 11:09:14 -0600 |
| commit | a03ef333fbd6cd861c8457c3d055ee3643a9baad (patch) | |
| tree | d262316dd105dadca11f8400782471ce01a2e484 /Documentation/process/index.rst | |
| parent | aed3c3346765e4317bb2ec6ff872e1c952e128ab (diff) | |
| download | linux-a03ef333fbd6cd861c8457c3d055ee3643a9baad.tar.gz linux-a03ef333fbd6cd861c8457c3d055ee3643a9baad.zip | |
Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug
The use of automated tools to find bugs in random locations of the kernel
induces a raise of security reports even if most of them should just be
reported as regular bugs. This patch is an attempt at drawing a line
between what qualifies as a security bug and what does not, hoping to
improve the situation and ease decision on the reporter's side.
It defers the enumeration to a new file, threat-model.rst, that tries
to enumerate various classes of issues that are and are not security
bugs. This should permit to more easily update this file for various
subsystem-specific rules without having to revisit the security bug
reporting guide.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260509094755.2838-3-w@1wt.eu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index dbd6ea16aca7..aa7c959a52b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ regressions and security problems. debugging/index handling-regressions security-bugs + threat-model cve embargoed-hardware-issues |