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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jochen Striepe <jochen@tolot.escape.de>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:54:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373730866.17876.139.camel@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130713151048.GB31035@redhat.com>

On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 11:10 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 07:11:29AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
>  > > Users expect vanilla .0 releases usable as production systems, to
>  > > be updated (meaning, no new features, just stabilizing) with the
>  > > corresponding -stable series.
>  > 
>  > This really is a case by case basis. An unprivileged user exploit
>  > requires a box that lets other users than the owner of the box to log
>  > in. Most users of .0 releases do not do this.
> 
> local exploits aren't just a problem for multi-user machines.
> An attacker who can own your firefox process, can now potentially
> escalate to root.  (Ok, most exploits are just crashing the box,
> but how many times have we been proven wrong in the past when we
> thought something was just a DoS, and someone smarter has found
> a way to turn it into a root-hole?)

Of course I don't want to lower the importance of such a fix. But making
sure the fix works and not rushed out is important too. It really is a
case by case basis. Some bugs should get out to mainline and stable
quickly, but a lot of them should also be verified to work before
rushing to get them out the door. And verification does take a bit of
time. The last thing we want a fix to do is to create a bug that could
potentially be worse than the one being fixed.

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-13 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 213+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-11 22:01 [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 01/19] libceph: Fix NULL pointer dereference in auth client code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 02/19] ceph: fix sleeping function called from invalid context Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 03/19] libceph: fix invalid unsigned->signed conversion for timespec encoding Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 04/19] drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 05/19] module: do percpu allocation after uniqueness check. No, really! Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 06/19] charger-manager: Ensure event is not used as format string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 07/19] hpfs: better test for errors Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 08/19] block: do not pass disk names as format strings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 09/19] crypto: sanitize argument for format string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 10/19] MAINTAINERS: add stable_kernel_rules.txt to stable maintainer information Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 11/19] futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 12/19] tty: Reset itty for other pty Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 13/19] Revert "serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 14/19] NFSv4.1 end back channel session draining Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 15/19] nfsd4: fix decoding of compounds across page boundaries Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 16/19] KVM: VMX: mark unusable segment as nonpresent Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 17/19] SCSI: sd: Fix parsing of temporary cache mode prefix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 18/19] cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:01 ` [ 19/19] Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-11 22:14 ` [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Josh Boyer
2013-07-14 22:54   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-11 22:29 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-11 22:44   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12  1:51     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 14:15     ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 15:22       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 15:47         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 15:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 16:17             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-12 16:35               ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-12 16:36                 ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-12 17:05                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14 22:40                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-12 16:48             ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 17:31         ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 17:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 18:11             ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 19:35               ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 19:49                 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 19:55                   ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-12 20:19                   ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 20:28                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 20:31                       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 21:19                       ` Justin M. Forbes
2013-07-13  0:47                       ` Jochen Striepe
2013-07-13 11:11                         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-13 15:10                           ` Dave Jones
2013-07-13 15:54                             ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2013-07-12 19:50             ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-12 20:47               ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 21:02                 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-13  6:22               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13  6:36                 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-13  6:48                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13  7:12                     ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15  4:12                       ` Li Zefan
2013-07-15  4:43                         ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-13 11:42                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-13 18:27                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14  2:22                         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-14  3:51                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14  5:24                             ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-14 20:31                               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-13  6:43                 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-13  6:58                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-14 23:52             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-15  1:40               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15  2:08                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-14 22:58     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-12  0:50 ` When to push bug fixes to mainline Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12  1:20   ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-07-12  1:54   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12  9:46     ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-12 11:19       ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-12  2:57   ` John W. Linville
2013-07-12  3:34     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12  7:32       ` James Bottomley
2013-07-12 17:20       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 17:28         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12 17:50           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 17:59             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 18:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-13 17:52                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-12 17:57           ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-12 18:13             ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-12 18:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 18:28               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 19:44                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-12 19:53                   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 20:09                     ` Shuah Khan
2013-07-12 20:33                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-12 20:46                       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-12 22:19                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 22:17                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-13  6:44                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-13  0:24       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-13  1:32         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13 12:16           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-12  3:25   ` Li Zefan
2013-07-15  4:22     ` Rob Landley
2013-07-12  5:14   ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16  7:19     ` David Lang
2013-07-16 16:40       ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Takashi Iwai
2013-07-16 16:42         ` David Lang
2013-07-16 19:29           ` Takashi Iwai
2013-07-16 16:59         ` Mark Brown
2013-07-16 17:58           ` Luck, Tony
2013-07-16 17:58             ` Luck, Tony
2013-07-16 18:29             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 18:29               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 18:41               ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 18:41                 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 19:11                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-16 19:11                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-16 19:43                   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 19:43                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 20:10                     ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 20:10                       ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-17  2:58                       ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17  2:58                         ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17  9:43                       ` Li Zefan
2013-07-17  9:43                         ` Li Zefan
2013-07-16 18:48               ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 18:48                 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-19 10:13               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-19 10:13                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-16 18:39         ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 18:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 20:29         ` David Lang
2013-07-12 17:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-12 17:20 ` [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Shuah Khan
2013-07-12 17:29   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-13  4:14 ` Satoru Takeuchi
2013-07-14 23:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-15 15:52 Sarah Sharp
2013-07-15 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 17:46   ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-15 17:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 18:04       ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-15 18:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 18:46           ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-15 19:07             ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 19:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 19:53               ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-15 20:41                 ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-15 21:01                   ` Kees Cook
2013-07-15 21:50                   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-18 10:39                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-18 14:32                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-07-18 16:07                       ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-18 16:16                         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-18 17:39                         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-16 14:30                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-16 15:00                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 15:09                     ` Kees Cook
2013-07-16 15:27                       ` Darren Hart
2013-07-18  0:42                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-18  3:16                   ` CAI Qian
2013-07-18  3:47                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-18  4:01                       ` CAI Qian
2013-07-18  5:03                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-18  6:06                           ` CAI Qian
2013-07-18 10:21                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-18 11:35                         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-18 13:23                         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-07-18  4:15                       ` CAI Qian
2013-07-18 15:48                   ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-19 10:35                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-24 10:43                 ` Florian Holz
2013-07-16 14:45               ` Alex Elder
2013-07-15 19:17             ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 19:23               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-15 19:39                 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 22:50                 ` Raymond Jennings
2013-07-16  4:52                 ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-16 21:08                   ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-16 21:23                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 21:58                       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 22:12                         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-17  5:22                           ` Sarah Sharp
2013-07-19 11:10                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-16 21:27                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 22:11                     ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-17  1:02                     ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-17  1:37                       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-17  1:54                         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-17  3:28                         ` Darren Hart
2013-07-15 22:40               ` NeilBrown
2013-07-16  6:13                 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16 15:40                   ` Darren Hart
2013-07-16 18:18                     ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-16  2:44             ` Li Zefan
2013-07-15 19:05           ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-07-15 19:19             ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 23:42               ` NeilBrown
2013-07-15 23:50                 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-16  1:54                   ` NeilBrown
2013-07-16  2:01                     ` Joe Perches
2013-07-21  4:15                       ` Rob Landley
2013-07-17  7:01                   ` CAI Qian
2013-07-17  8:39           ` Janne Karhunen
2013-07-15 18:22   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 17:33 ` Darren Hart
2013-07-15 19:04 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-19 11:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-23  8:26 ` Rogelio Serrano
2013-07-18  3:50 George Spelvin
2013-07-23  1:42 Regina Obe
2013-07-23  3:43 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-07-23  4:16   ` Regina Obe
2013-07-23  4:49   ` Regina Obe

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