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2019-09-29Documentation/process: Clarify disclosure rulesThomas Gleixner
The role of the contact list provided by the disclosing party and how it affects the disclosure process and the ability to include experts into the development process is not really well explained. Neither is it entirely clear when the disclosing party will be informed about the fact that a developer who is not covered by an employer NDA needs to be brought in and disclosed. Explain the role of the contact list and the information policy along with an eventual conflict resolution better. Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1909251028390.10825@nanos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-09-10Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for IntelTony Luck
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190910172646.25BFCE7B@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-09-07Documentation/process: Add Qualcomm process ambassador for hardware security ↵Trilok Soni
issues Add Trilok Soni as process ambassador for hardware security issues from Qualcomm. Signed-off-by: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1567796517-8964-1-git-send-email-tsoni@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-09-06Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues: Microsoft ambassadorSasha Levin
Add Sasha Levin as Microsoft's process ambassador. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190906095852.23568-1-sashal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-09-05Documentation/process: Add Google contact for embargoed hardware issuesKees Cook
This adds myself as the Google contact for embargoed hardware security issues and fixes some small typos. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Matt Linton <amuse@google.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/201909040922.56496BF70@keescook Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-09-05Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for XenAndrew Cooper
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190904181702.19788-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-08-28Documentation/process: Embargoed hardware security issuesThomas Gleixner
To address the requirements of embargoed hardware issues, like Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF etc. it is necessary to define and document a process for handling embargoed hardware security issues. Following the discussion at the maintainer summit 2018 in Edinburgh (https://lwn.net/Articles/769417/) the volunteered people have worked out a process and a Memorandum of Understanding. The latter addresses the fact that the Linux kernel community cannot sign NDAs for various reasons. The initial contact point for hardware security issues is different from the regular kernel security contact to provide a known and neutral interface for hardware vendors and researchers. The initial primary contact team is proposed to be staffed by Linux Foundation Fellows, who are not associated to a vendor or a distribution and are well connected in the industry as a whole. The process is designed with the experience of the past incidents in mind and tries to address the remaining gaps, so future (hopefully rare) incidents can be handled more efficiently. It won't remove the fact, that most of this has to be done behind closed doors, but it is set up to avoid big bureaucratic hurdles for individual developers. The process is solely for handling hardware security issues and cannot be used for regular kernel (software only) security bugs. This memo can help with hardware companies who, and I quote, "[my manager] doesn't want to bet his job on the list keeping things secret." This despite numerous leaks directly from that company over the years, and none ever so far from the kernel security team. Cognitive dissidence seems to be a requirement to be a good manager. To accelerate the adoption of this process, we introduce the concept of ambassadors in participating companies. The ambassadors are there to guide people to comply with the process, but are not automatically involved in the disclosure of a particular incident. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190815212505.GC12041@kroah.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>