Re: [patch 00/18] 2.6.18-stable review

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:44:22PM +0200, S.??a??lar Onur wrote:
> 26 ??ub 2007 Pts tarihinde, Adrian Bunk ??unlar?? yazm????t??: 
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:55:04PM +0200, S.??a??lar Onur wrote:
> > > 21 ??ub 2007 ??ar tarihinde, Greg KH ??unlar?? yazm????t??:
> > > > Responses should be made by Friday February 23 00:00 UTC.  Anything
> > > > received after that time might be too late.
> > >
> > > We have still some CVEish patches in our package which maybe you want to
> > > consider adding into -stable.
> >
> > Below, I'll only look at the 2.6.18, 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 kernels.
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4814
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.18.8
> > - 2.6.19.2
> > - 2.6.20
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5749
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.20 (commit dab6df63086762629936e8b89a5984bae39724f6)
> >
> > missing in:
> > - 2.6.18
> > - 2.6.19
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5753
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.20 (commit be6aab0e9fa6d3c6d75aa1e38ac972d8b4ee82b8)
> >
> > missing in:
> > - 2.6.18
> > - 2.6.19
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5823
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.19.2
> > - 2.6.20
> >
> > missing in:
> > - 2.6.18
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6053
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.19.2
> > - 2.6.20
> >
> > missing in:
> > - 2.6.18
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6054
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.19.2
> > - 2.6.20
> >
> > missing in:
> > - 2.6.18
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6333
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.19.1
> > - 2.6.20
> >
> > problem not present in:
> > - 2.6.18
> >
> > > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0006
> >
> > fixed in:
> > - 2.6.19.5
> >
> > missing in:
> > - 2.6.18
> > - 2.6.20
> 
> So maybe 2.6.18 deserves another stable release :) ?

Why?  Does anyone really use it now that 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 is out?

I don't want to do a new release as we need to catch up on the 2.6.20
issues...

And also remember, the point of the -stable tree was that we would drop
older releases after the next release came out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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