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

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Mon Dec 01 2025 - 02:13:19 EST


On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 07:38:17AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> 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! :)

At least it gives us a place to point to, saying "look at the rules".

> 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>

Thanks! Oh BTW I'm noticing a typo in the commit message above
"full for" instead of "full of". Feel free to adjust it while
applying, though it's really not important (and no, I won't
respin a patch just for this :-)).

Willy