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Vegard Nossum

@gregkh Quick question about CVE assignments, are you only assigning based on commits that actually make an appearance in stable? What happens if you have a mainline fix that fails to apply to stable (AKA the previous mainline release) and nobody submits a backport, would that escape CVE review and assignment..?

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gregkh

Greg K-H

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@vegard Yes, that would miss the normal "review all the stable commits" process. If you think there is a mainline-only commit that needs to have a CVE, please let us know at the cve@k.o address and we can assign it then.

But better yet, backport the fix to stable and it all happens automatically for you :)
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vegard@mastodon.social

Vegard Nossum

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@gregkh Thanks. I think the probability of this happening is probably fairly low (recent release => fewer conflicts + you'll probably pick up the missing prerequisite patches) but it's good to have a correct understand of how the process works.

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gregkh

Greg K-H

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@vegard Does our current documentation not make this clear?

If not, patches welcome :)
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