On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 08:20:17AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > [...] > +One difficulty for most first-time reporters is to figure the right list of > +recipients to send a report to. In the Linux kernel, all official > maintainers > +are trusted, so the consequences of accidentally including the wrong > maintainer > +are essentially a bit more noise for that person, i.e. nothing dramatic. As
Yeah, this is the central point: we already trust maintainers; there is nothing "special" about [email protected]. > [...] > +single line suitable for use in the To: field of a mailer like this:: > + > + $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --no-tree --no-l --no-r --no-n --m \ > + --no-git-fallback --no-substatus --no-rolestats --no-multiline \ > + --pattern-depth 1 drivers/example.c > + [email protected], [email protected] To echo Greg, yeah, this is great, and has been an implicit action we've done for years, so there's every reason to delegate it to the reporter to avoid the round-trip. Though I guess we'll see if these new instructions actually change anything -- we still have people asking for CVE assignments. :P Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> -- Kees Cook
