Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 11:40:43AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 07:20:09PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Here's an example of what the CVE announcement is going to look like for
> > a "test" that we have been doing for our scripts
> > 	https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024021353-drainage-unstuffed-a7c0@gregkh/T/#u
> > ...
> > the latest release is impossible, the individual change to resolve this
> > issue can be found at:
> > 	https://git.kernel.org/stable/linux/c/f08adf5add9a071160c68bb2a61d697f39ab0758
> 
> This is the "original fix", a v5.16 commit, which was backported to all
> the stables. For this case, that seems fine (it's pretty easy to grep
> the stable trees for the SHA).
> 
> In the case of a fix only being in -stable, what will be listed for
> SHAs here? Each stable SHA? Something else?

I think listing all of the SHA values, stable and mainline, would be
best, right?  No need for everyone to try to grep the trees, and bonus,
the json format has a specific field just for this as well.  That's on
my todo list for today...

thanks,

greg k-h




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