Security patches have different handling than rest of patches for review.
Enclose note paragraph about such patches in `.. note::` block.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme@gmail.com --- Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst index 003c865e9c2..691d7052546 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst @@ -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>`.