For helping with the increase of AI tools scouring the Linux kernel source tree and sending security bug reports, a pull request sent today ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc7 improves the documentation to better guide AI agents — and anyone reading the documentation — how to send better quality bug reports.
Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out the char/misc pull request today of fixes for the Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release due out later today. Most notable this time around isn’t code changes but rather documentation additions motivated by AI / LLM usage.
Greg remarked with today’s pull request:
“The “largest” change overall is just some documentation updates to the security-bugs.rst file to hopefully tell the AI tools (and any users that actually read the documentation), how to send us better security bug reports as the quantity of reports these past few weeks has increased dramatically due to tools getting better at “finding” things.”
Among the documentation additions are to clarify mandatory and desirable information within security reports:
“A significant part of the effort of the security team consists in begging reporters for patch proposals, or asking them to provide them in regular format, and most of the time they’re willing to provide this, they just didn’t know that it would help. So let’s add a section detailing the required and desirable contents in a security report to help reporters write more actionable reports which do not require round trips.”
There is also added documentation for better identifying contacts for who to send security reports to involving different areas of the kernel source tree.
Plus other minor updates and corrections to the security reports documentation.
Now let’s hope that this leads to better AI-generated security reports for the Linux kernel…
