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

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:16:46 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.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

* 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 ...

Thanks,

	Ingo