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Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug
authorWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Sat, 9 May 2026 09:47:54 +0000 (11:47 +0200)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 12 May 2026 17:09:14 +0000 (11:09 -0600)
commita03ef333fbd6cd861c8457c3d055ee3643a9baad
treed262316dd105dadca11f8400782471ce01a2e484
parentaed3c3346765e4317bb2ec6ff872e1c952e128ab
Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug

The use of automated tools to find bugs in random locations of the kernel
induces a raise of security reports even if most of them should just be
reported as regular bugs. This patch is an attempt at drawing a line
between what qualifies as a security bug and what does not, hoping to
improve the situation and ease decision on the reporter's side.

It defers the enumeration to a new file, threat-model.rst, that tries
to enumerate various classes of issues that are and are not security
bugs. This should permit to more easily update this file for various
subsystem-specific rules without having to revisit the security bug
reporting guide.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260509094755.2838-3-w@1wt.eu>
Documentation/process/index.rst
Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst
Documentation/process/threat-model.rst [new file with mode: 0644]