On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:17:43 +0800, Pavel Labushev said: > "SECURITY PATCH tag on a fix" helps me to know that there is the problem > and I must consider the patch, check its correctness and maybe > test/backport/apply it to my production systems ASAP. Just as another > tags helps me to know that there are realiability and other issues I > must care about.
OK, now s/security patch/silent data corruption/ and tell me what's *actually* different. Wow, you still need to consider it, check it, test it, and deploy it. Unless of course you don't give a shit about your data. But in that case, the security patch can probably be overlooked too. That's Linus's point - if the patch is important enough to go into one of the -stable tree kernels, it's probably something you want to install, whether or not it's a security patch.
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