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Message-ID: <20080610230645.GA16711@khazad-dum.debian.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:06:45 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.6 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > Person fixing a bug may not realize he fixes security-sensitive bug. That is a valid reason, I am pretty sure everyone here (including me) has been guilty of that one. Which doesn't mean we can't do better to educate ourselves on the patterns for the most common issues. The "fix for a null-dereference to anything that has a function pointer in it" is such a pattern. > Or simply doesn't care because there are 5 more to fix for today. THAT, however, is unacceptable IMO. If one can't be bothered, or one doesn't have the time (or the skill, whatever) to access the severity of a fix, he should ask for someone to do that on the commit message. One extra short sentence at the end of the commit message [asking for that help] is DEFINATELY not too much to ask. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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