Re: [PATCH 0/5] docs: improve guidance for AI-assisted bug reports

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2026 at 10:35:35PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> While vulnerability reporters have now started CCing maintainers,
> showing they read the docs, the security team still spends a lot of
> time repeating the same comments about tested version, incomplete
> fixes, poor email client setup causing formatting issues making
> patches unusable, unverified reports and missing Assisted-By tags,
> each time for AI-assisted reports.
> 
> This series adds small updates to security-bugs.rst, threat-model.rst
> and coding-assistant.rst to better deal with this and provide minimal
> instructions helping the LLM follow our expectations.
> 
> The updates were iteratively and carefully tested with 3 models,
> Opus-5, Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451, and Gemini,
> until all of them strictly followed the rules.
> 
> It is expected to further improve the situation.
> 
> Willy Tarreau (5):
>   docs: threat-model: clarify "security bug" vs "vulnerability"
>   docs: threat-model: move fake devices out of "non production use"
>   docs: security-bugs: clarify what counts as a valid version
>   docs: coding-assistant: explain important steps when looking for bugs
>   docs: security-bugs: clarify some mandatory steps for AI reports
> 
>  Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst     | 26 ++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/process/threat-model.rst      | 39 ++++++++++++---------
>  3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 

All of these look great, thanks for them!  I'll wait a day or two before
committing them to my tree and getting them to Linus for 7.2-final to
hopefully quell the onslaught of "bad" bugs being reported...

greg k-h