Seems like it ought to be straightforward to do something to cause
in-testsuite? flags to send mail occasionally, or show up on some
dashboard, or...

Dan

Am Di., 10. Sept. 2019 um 09:11 Uhr schrieb Andrew McCreight
<amccrei...@mozilla.com>:
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 4:55 PM Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:01 PM Jeff Walden <jwal...@mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Those of you longer in the tooth may remember Firefox was successfully
> > > exploited in Pwn2own 2012...and we didn't have to lift a finger to fix
> > it.
> > > We already had -- in the Firefox release shipping days later.  🤦
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735104 (pwn2own bug)
> > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720511 (cover bug,
> > > discussion only of a spec-compliance issue)
> > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720079 (sec bug noting the
> > > sec issue)
> > >
> > > We later discussed whether the exploit had been "achieved" by reading our
> > > public commits.  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735104#c2
> > > The fruit of this discussion was our security approval process, where
> > > security patches land only after approval, in relative lockstep close to
> > > release, with incriminating tests/comments removed.  This is also where
> > > sec-approval comment hoop-jumping began.
> >
> >
> > How often do we go back and land those tests and comments after the fix has
> > been in the release builds for a suitable amount of time?
> >
>
> In theory, you should set the in-testsuite? flag when you land without the
> test, and then when the bug is opened, land the test, but in practice I
> don't think anybody makes sure that happens. I feel like I've seen one or
> two cases over the years where we fixed some sec issue, no test landed,
> then much later we regressed it.
>
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