Re: [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports
From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Dec 01 2025 - 01:38:26 EST
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@xxxxxx>
> ---
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>