linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports

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Message-ID: <874ipiywpd.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:32:14 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc: Security Officers <security@...nel.org>, kees@...nel.org,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for
 security reports

Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 29, 2025 at 03:17:41PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> As the trend of AI-generated reports is growing, the trend of unreadable
>> reports in gimmicky formats is following, and we cannot request that
>> developers rely on online viewers to be able to read a security report
>> full for formatting tags. Let's just insist on the plain text requirement
>> a bit more.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst | 6 +++++-
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Looks good to me!  Given the number of non-plain-text emails with binary
> attachments we still get there, it's obvious not many people seem to
> read this file, but it can't hurt!  :)
>
> I'll queue this up if Jon doesn't, after -rc1 is out.  If he wants to
> take it, here's my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

I grabbed it, thanks.

jon