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
next prev 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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