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From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	mchehab+samsung@kernel.org,
	ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Handling of embargoed security issues
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:20:23 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1809111013260.15880@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809101026160.1402@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Looking at SSBD/L1TF only and ignoring the Meltdown/Spectre disaster (which
> was completely FUBARed by Intel), having something like this in place could
> have certainly solved the main gap which we had. We were able to
> communicate freely between the informed parties and their allowed to know
> kernel developers, even accross vendors. 

Agreed, this worked pretty well this time.

> But there was no simple way to bring in anybody else. It tooks us almost 
> 2 months to get GregKH on board, but there was no way to talk to e.g. 
> the BPF folks in time.

But this was what has caused real pain indeed. Do we know / can it be 
publicly said what exactly was the issue in those cases? Was it perhaps 
that those people were not employed by a company the disclosing party had 
a NDA in place already (like it probably had with all the involved 
vendors, etc)?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06 19:18 Jiri Kosina
2018-09-06 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-06 21:14   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-06 22:51     ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-07  9:17   ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-07 14:43   ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-06 22:55 ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-07  8:21   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-10 23:26     ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-11  8:45       ` Greg KH
2018-09-11 17:10         ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-11 18:28           ` Greg KH
2018-09-11 18:44           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-07 13:30   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-09 12:55     ` Greg KH
2018-09-09 19:48       ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-10  4:04         ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-12  7:03           ` Greg KH
2018-09-10  4:12       ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-10 11:10       ` Mark Brown
2018-09-12  4:22   ` Balbir Singh
2018-09-08  4:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-08  8:56   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-08 11:21     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-08 11:34       ` Greg KH
2018-09-08 14:20         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-08 15:29           ` Greg KH
2018-09-08 15:00         ` James Bottomley
2018-09-08 15:32           ` Greg KH
2018-09-08 15:54             ` James Bottomley
2018-09-08 19:49               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-08 21:24                 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-08 22:33                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-09 12:18                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-10 22:59                 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-11  8:48                   ` Greg KH
2018-09-09 12:51               ` Greg KH
2018-09-09 14:20                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-09 14:38                   ` James Bottomley
2018-09-09 14:51                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-09 17:20                       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-09 17:48                         ` David Woodhouse
2018-09-09 18:17                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-09 18:56                           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-09 19:19                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-09-09 20:20                             ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-09 21:36                               ` James Bottomley
2018-09-10  9:25                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-10 14:40                               ` James Bottomley
2018-09-11  8:20                               ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2018-09-11  9:03                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-09 19:41                   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-08 19:26           ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-08 19:47             ` James Bottomley

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