Re: [stable] [patch 00/50] -stable review

From: Michael Krufky
Date: Mon Feb 05 2007 - 17:20:50 EST


Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:24:18PM -0500, Michael Krufky wrote:
>> Chris Wright wrote:
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.2 release.
>>> There are 50 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and
>>> wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
>>>
>>> These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the
>>> Cc: line. If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list,
>>> also email us.
>>>
>>> Responses should be made by Mon Jan 8 02:30 UTC.
>>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>> At which point was 2.6.18.y dropped? I thought we were always going to keep
>> the last two stable kernels up-to-date. Have I been wasting my time fwd'ing
>> 2.6.18.y patches?
>
> It was dropped a while ago, sorry.
>
> I'll go through the archives and see if there's enough to do a .18
> release (and the patches are serious enough to warrent it.)

Actually, I have a few more -stable patches for both 2.6.18.y and 2.6.19.y, if
you don't mind holding off a day or two (wont have time to prepare these until
tomorrow evening)... One of them is a security fix, that allows a non-root user
to hang the kernel given the correct circumstances.

Maybe you guys can make some sort of announcement before the -stable kernel is
closed. I know that now that 2.6.20 is released, implicitly 2.6.18.y is
closed... but it's been a long while since the last 2.6.18.y release, so I
wasn't sure if patches were still being accepted.

Regards,

Michael Krufky

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