linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [patch 34/38] kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect

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Message-ID: <20080223062939.GA11207@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:29:39 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, jejb@...nel.org,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 34/38] kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:53:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:41:15AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:53:49PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:31:33 -0800
> > > > Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 2.6.24-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > > > us know.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > not ready for -stable yet. if ever for backporting (doubtful)
> > > 
> > > Ok, dropped from -stable, thanks.
> > 
> > For the record I agree with Arjan that it is not yet -stable ready.
> 
> Ok.  Then who sent this to the stable alias in the first place?
> 
> Sam, you added the "cc: stable@...nel.org" to the patch, and that caused
> it to be sent to us when it went into Linus's tree.  If you don't want
> things like this to go into the -stable tree, don't mark it as such :)

When I added the tag I was convinced this was -stable material.
Only later the testing done by James revealed that this was bogus
and I had long forgotten I added -stable to the patch.

	Sam
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