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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 18:54:10 EST


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> * Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > [...]
>> > Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> I was just relaying a fix. I noted the original reporter in the first
>> patch, how they asked to be credited:
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>> Reported-by: Di Shen (@returnsme) of KeenLab (@keen_lab), Tencent
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> 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.
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> 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

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security