On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:53 AM Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 04:38:58AM -1000, Steve Sakoman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:02 AM Mikko Rapeli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 08:42:57AM +0000, Anatol Belski wrote:
> > > > The naming convention needs to be help so the CVE is recognized as
> > > > fixed by the tooling.
> > >
> > > Yocto CVE checker does detect CVE patches also from patch comments so
> > > this change is not needed for that. This is sufficient:
> > >
> > > poky$ git grep CVE-2020-35457
> > > meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0/0001-goption-Add-a-precondition-to-avoid-GOptionEntry-lis.patch:CVE:
> > >  CVE-2020-35457
> >
> > Yes, we are detecting the CVE patch from the patch comment.
> >
> > However our CVE patch guidelines do request that the patch be named
> > with the CVE as the name:
> >
> > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Security
> >
> > (in the "Patch name convention and commit message" section)
> >
> > I'm sorry I didn't catch this when I merged this earlier.  I always
> > check the patch itself for the CVE tag, but I missed the name.  So I'm
> > happy to take this patch just to clean up the metadata and make it
> > easy to see that this is a CVE patch.
>
> Does anyone know why CVE ID in both name of the patch and in the CVE: tag are 
> required?

I wasn't involved in defining the requirements, but I suspect that it
is to make it easy to
see with a glance of the recipe which patches are CVE fixes.

I like it for this reason, but as you say it doesn't affect the cve
checker script.

Steve

> Sometimes when copying patches over from upstream or other distros, I prefer 
> to do as
> little changes to them as possible. Adding CVE: tag and Upstream-Status are 
> ok, but
> for example renaming all patches files copied from a Debian/Ubuntu patch set 
> is
> a bit too much.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Mikko
> 
>
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