linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: protect group_leader from races that cause ctx

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:54:03 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Dias <joaodias@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Min Chong <mchong@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: protect group_leader from races that cause ctx

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> * Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> > [...]
>> > Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>>
>> I was just relaying a fix. I noted the original reporter in the first
>> patch, how they asked to be credited:
>>
>> Reported-by: Di Shen (@returnsme) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent
>
> So while it's OK to not give an email address (unlike Signed-off-by the
> Reported-by line is giving credit and has no code authorship legal effect),
> I agree with Peter that this line is pretty weird, bordering on the ugly.
>
> If the reporter doesn't want the email address exposed we can just skip the tag
> and credit the reporter in the changelog:
>
>   Di Shen reported that ...

Cleanest is probably just:

Reported-by: Di Shen

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security