Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/357] 3.16.4-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 03:50:57PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 13:39:14 -0700
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 07:38:39AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > On Fri,  3 Oct 2014 14:26:26 -0700
> > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > Note: This is a big stable release.  Mostly my fault for being on the
> > > > road last week, combined with an unusually large number of patches being
> > > > tagged for the stable tree.  Anyway, I've caught up with all pending
> > > > patches before 3.17-rc7, so if you have marked something for the stable
> > > > tree that I have not applied, or emailed the stable@xxxxx list asking
> > > > for a patch, that is not here, please let me know.
> > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > 
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.4 release.
> > > > There are 357 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 me know.
> > > > 
> > > > Responses should be made by Sun Oct  5 21:28:42 UTC 2014.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Should also include this one, which fixes CVE-2014-6410:
> > > 
> > > commit c03aa9f6e1f938618e6db2e23afef0574efeeb65
> > > Author: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Thu Sep 4 14:06:55 2014 +0200
> > > 
> > >     udf: Avoid infinite loop when processing indirect ICBs
> > 
> > Thanks, I'll queue that up for the next stable releases.
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> I built 3.16.4-rc1 for Fedora, which already has this patch included.
> 
> It boots and runs on Fedora 21, and that patch has been in Fedora 21 for
> a while. Why not include it in 3.16.4?

Because I found out about it _after_ 3.16-rc4 was released for review,
with 357 other patches in it.  What's so pressing with this that can't
wait a few more days?

greg k-h
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