Commit 615f3eea authored Mar 14, 2022 by Bagas Sanjaya Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Mar 18, 2022

Documentation: add note block surrounding security patch note

Security patches have different handling than rest of patches for
review.

Enclose note paragraph about such patches in `.. note::` block.

Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 5a242d85

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

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		@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the
		Procedure for submitting patches to the -stable tree
		----------------------------------------------------

		- Security patches should not be handled (solely) by the -stable review
		.. note::

		Security patches should not be handled (solely) by the -stable review
		process but should follow the procedures in
		:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst <securitybugs>`.