linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] splice fixes

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4C360B42.8070909@kernel.dk>
Date:	Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:30:42 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, xiaosuo@...il.com,
	tim.gardner@...onical.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] splice fixes

On 08/07/10 19.25, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:38:22 +0200 Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
> 
>>>> However this:
>>>>
>>>> commit 4f9078afb4e083e033aafbbfabe729cb3832aa42
>>>> Author: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
>>>> Date:   Tue Jun 29 13:09:18 2010 +0200
>>>>
>>>>     splice: direct_splice_actor() should not use pos in sd
>>>>
>>>> went into mainline without a cc:stable tag.
>>>
>>> I will send an email to stable@.
>>
>> BTW, it's not in mainline yet. I know I forgot to mark it as stable,
>> but I can't tell them to include it before it's in mainline.
> 
> You could redo the changelog then.  But stable@...nel.org is cc'ed on
> these emails and they're splendid chaps ;)

But then the Linus monster ends up shouting at me, so I'll rather
take a little stable abuse :-)

What I've done in the past is just send stable@ a list of commits
once they are upstream. Less work for them. Best is remembering
the stable CC in the commit, but...

-- 
Jens Axboe

--
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/