Article 75PBC Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

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corbet
from LWN.net on (#75PBC)
The 7.1-rc4 kernel prepatch is out fortesting.

Some of the documentation updates might be worth highlighting: thecontinued flood of AI reports has basically made the security listalmost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due todifferent people finding the same things with the sametools. People spend all their time just forwarding things to theright people or saying "that was already fixed a week/month ago"and pointing to the public discussion.

Which is all entirely pointless churn, and we're making it clearthat AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, andtreating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybodyinvolved - and only makes that duplication worse because thereporters can't even see each other's reports.

(He is referring to thispull request with patches from Willy Tarreau defining what constitutes a securitybug and responsibleways to use AI to find bugs).

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