On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 07:53:14PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:34:44PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> > From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
>> > objections, please let us know.
>>
>> IMHO this is not stable material. Significant risk you broke
>> something obscure, and it's not clear it fixes any real problem.
>
> Then why is it in Linus's tree?
>
>> At least wait some more time first.
>
> How long should we wait?  3.19 to be released?  This does seem to fix a
> real problem as the changelog points out.

It even has a CVE (CVE-2014-9419).

--Andy


>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



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