linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.15 099/139] libiscsi, iser: Adjust data

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

Date:	Thu, 3 Jul 2014 09:27:48 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@...lanox.com>,
	Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.15 099/139] libiscsi, iser: Adjust data_length to
 include protection information

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 06:54:05AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 23:05 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 03:52:35PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > In which case it's not marked for stable backport ... I assume it should
> > > be?
> > 
> > Only if the patch that regression went to stable, which it shouldn't,
> 
> Well it did:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/scsi?h=linux-3.15.y&id=04423ddea30a7fb7232636eda8aed55ea5b972fe
> 
> The stable process is a bit broken from my point of view since it
> doesn't copy linux-scsi on SCSI commits

I copy everyone on the patch.  You were not on that patch as it doesn't
look like it went through your tree at all.

> ... but this time even I didn't get a cc, so really no-one who knew
> there was a problem had a chance to comment.

The target people (Nicholas) asked for the patch to be applied, they
knew what was going on here.

> The choice is either request revert from stable or add fix.

Agreed, just let me know.

greg k-h
--
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/