linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/security-bugs: Explain why plain text is preferred

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Message-ID: <20200713093719.37ad0fb8@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:37:19 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        security@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/security-bugs: Explain why plain text is
 preferred

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:11:30 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> The security contact list gets regular reports contained in archive
> attachments. This tends to add some back-and-forth delay in dealing with
> security reports since we have to ask for plain text, etc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon