linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1307161109480.29788@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:11:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable
 kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Greg KH wrote:

> > Anything that's being reviewed on the stable list is public.  I know
> > this is an old argument, but if you point out a fix you *know* has a
> > security impact then you'll help general distribution maintainers and
> > users a lot more than you help the black-hats who are quite capable of
> > recognising such a fix (if they haven't already spotted and exploited
> > the bug).
> 
> I'm sorry, but you know I will not do that, so asking about it isn't
> going to change this behavior.

I just followed up in the other thread, where Ted was explaining why the 
huge /dev/random rework was a -stable material.

Why specifically would it be wrong to be open about this being security 
related, and providing the necessary data (i.e. at least reference to 
http://factorable.net/) publically?

I fail to see what the point behind hiding this would be.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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