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Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-20
• Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-20

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-doc (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COLD21d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• WARM3d Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: security-bugs: clarify requirements for AI-assisted reports
  2026-05-13 · Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: security-bugs: clarify requirements for AI-assisted reports
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COLD35d REVIEWED: 18 (18M) [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: security-bugs: clarify requirements for AI-assisted reports
  2026-05-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COLD35d [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COLD35d [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug
  2026-05-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COLD42d [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: security-bugs: explain what is and is not a security bug
  2026-04-26 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COLD42d [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: security-bugs: clarify requirements for AI-assisted reports
  2026-04-26 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• COLD42d [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-04-26 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• DORMANTno replies Documentation: fix two typos in latest update to the security report howto
  2026-04-04 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: clarify the mandatory and desirable info for security reports
  2026-04-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: explain how to find maintainers addresses for security reports
  2026-04-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
  2026-04-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE72d [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: clarify the mandatory and desirable info for security reports
  2026-04-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE72d [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: explain how to find maintainers addresses for security reports
  2026-04-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE72d [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
  2026-04-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE172d Re: [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports
  2025-12-01 · Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
• STALE172d [PATCH] Documentation: insist on the plain-text requirement for security reports
  2025-11-29 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE301d LANDED [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: smooth the text flow in the security bug reporting process
  2025-08-14 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE301d LANDED [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: clarify the expected collaboration with security bugs reporters
  2025-08-14 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE844d LANDED: 29 (27M) [PATCH v5] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process
  2024-02-17 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE848d REVIEWED: 29 (27M) [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process
  2024-02-15 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE845d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process
  2024-02-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process
  2024-02-14 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE850d [PATCH] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process
  2024-02-13 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• STALE963d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH] Documentation: security-bugs.rst: linux-distros relaxed their rules
  2023-10-15 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE974d [RFC PATCH] Documentation: security-bugs.rst: linux-distros relaxed their rules
  2023-10-07 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE1076d Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: security-bugs.rst: clarify CVE handling
  2023-06-30 · Kees Cook <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• WARM3d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-09 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD21d REVIEWED: 19 (19M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] Documentation: security-bugs: do not systematically Cc the security team
  2026-05-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 2 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE72d [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
  2026-04-02 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation: minor updates to the security contacts
  2026-04-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• STALE71d [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: clarify the mandatory and desirable info for security reports
  2026-04-03 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
• DORMANTno replies Documentation: fix two typos in latest update to the security report howto
  2026-04-04 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>