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Message-ID: <20060906192511.GA14579@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:25:11 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>, tony.luck@...el.com,
linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
Fernando Vazquez <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
stable@...nel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
devel@...nvz.org, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:12:16PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:45:09AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:27:33PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > If MIPS and parisc don't matter for the stable tree (very possible - there
> > > > are no big commercial distributions for them), then dammit, neither should
> > > > ia64 and sparc (there are no big commercial distros for them either).
> > >
> > > Erm, RHEL and SLES both support ia64.
> >
> > Yes, but the -stable developers don't build for those arches, that's why
> > it was missed here.
>
> What's the easiest way to get coverage here? Sending a parisc
> workstation or server to someone? Giving accounts to some/all of the
> stable team? Finding someone who cares about parisc to join the stable
> team?
How about: Someone from that arch trying out the -stable release
canidates to make sure it doesn't break anything on their arches /
favorite machine?
And no, I really don't want a parisc machine here :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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