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Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
This clarifies the fact that the bug reporters must use a valid e-mail address to send their report, and that the security team assists developers working on a fix but doesn't always produce fixes on its own. Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403062018.31080-2-w@1wt.eu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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disclosed as quickly as possible. Please report security bugs to the
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Linux kernel security team.
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Reports are to be sent over e-mail exclusively. Please use a working e-mail
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address, preferably the same that you want to appear in ``Reported-by`` tags
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if any. If unsure, send your report to yourself first.
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The security team and maintainers almost always require additional
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information beyond what was initially provided in a report and rely on
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active and efficient collaboration with the reporter to perform further
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The Linux kernel security team can be contacted by email at
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<security@kernel.org>. This is a private list of security officers
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who will help verify the bug report and develop and release a fix.
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If you already have a fix, please include it with your report, as
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that can speed up the process considerably. It is possible that the
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security team will bring in extra help from area maintainers to
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understand and fix the security vulnerability.
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who will help verify the bug report and assist developers working on a fix.
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It is possible that the security team will bring in extra help from area
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maintainers to understand and fix the security vulnerability.
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Please send **plain text** emails without attachments where possible.
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It is much harder to have a context-quoted discussion about a complex

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