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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> 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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> 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@v.k.o 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 <j...@suse.cz> > > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
