From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-kernel@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:46:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C47558.1040004@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130621153056.GA2192@woodpecker.gentoo.org>
On 06/21/2013 11:30 AM, Mike Pagano wrote:
> This should be written down and if it's not that's probably on me as I
> am the only kernel person (i think) that was involved in the decision
> and is still around.
Nope, I was there. It was the IA32 on amd64 syscall local root exploit
that got us "blogged" about ... remember that :)
Anyhow, no brainer here. The kernel is not like the other software we
stabilize. Somewhere in its configuration space and in the hardware
space in which it will be run, there are bugs. Minor version bumps to
address security issues followed by auto stabilization are the correct
thing to do.
--
Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 14:58 [gentoo-kernel] vanilla-kernel sources should not be marked stable for obsolete versions Greg KH
2013-06-21 15:30 ` Mike Pagano
2013-06-21 15:46 ` Anthony G. Basile [this message]
2013-06-21 16:49 ` Greg KH
2013-06-21 16:48 ` Greg KH
2013-06-21 17:20 ` Eric F. GARIOUD
2013-06-21 17:50 ` Greg KH
2013-06-21 19:51 ` Eric F. GARIOUD
2013-06-21 21:03 ` Greg KH
2013-06-21 19:36 ` Mike Pagano
2013-06-21 21:06 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 0:23 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-22 0:02 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-22 0:12 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 0:13 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 0:45 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-22 1:54 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-06-22 3:47 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 8:56 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-06-22 14:43 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 16:46 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-06-24 22:05 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 3:42 ` Greg KH
2013-06-22 6:45 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-24 16:27 ` Greg KH
2013-06-24 23:26 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-06-24 23:37 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-06-25 7:43 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2013-06-25 3:09 ` Dale
2013-06-25 6:18 ` Douglas Dunn
2013-06-27 4:15 ` Greg KH
2013-06-27 19:45 ` Mike Pagano
2013-06-27 20:03 ` Anthony G. Basile
2013-06-27 20:21 ` Mike Pagano
2013-07-06 19:56 ` Greg KH
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