linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

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Message-ID: <1373660900.17876.124.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:28:20 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:

> Your example above: If that fix was for "tracing reports wrong results", no big deal,
> everyone can live with it for a month. If it was fixing "a bug in tracing can allow
> an unprivileged user to crash the kernel", a month is unacceptable, and at
> the least we should be getting an interim fix to mitigate the problem.

And even that isn't one size fits all. If the exploit is a -rc only, or
even a newly released kernel. Is it that critical to get it fixed ASAP?
I would think that the kernel releases takes time before they get to
users main machines.

I would suspect that machines that allow unprivileged users would be
running distro kernels, and not the latest release from Linus, and thus
even a bug that "can allow an unprivileged user to crash the kernel" may
still be able to sit around for a month before being submitted.

This wouldn't be the case if the bug was in older kernels that are being
used.

-- Steve

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