From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:51:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1373593870.17876.70.camel@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130711224455.GA17222@kroah.com>
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 15:44 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > For .10 I had to start making a list of "shit that's broken that there's
> > an outstanding patch for" and nagging people to send them week after week.
> > Every time I reported a new bug I'd hit, I'd have to explain I wasn't running
> > Linus' tree because there was so much other crap I had to carry just to
> > get things to a baseline of stability before starting tests.
> >
> > By rc7 things got a lot better, but if we have fixes sitting around in
> > git trees for weeks on end with no progress, that kinda sucks.
>
> We have patches with assigned CVE numbers sitting in subsystem trees
> that didn't hit Linus's tree until this merge window. Now granted, I
> don't necessarily agree that they were worth CVEs, but really, holding
> them off from being merged for 2 months or so is really bad, and means
> that something seems a bit broken with our development process.
>
> And thanks for nagging people, I really appreciate it, sad it's
> necessary.
What I try to do is, get all "stable" patches in before -rc4 is out.
Once -rc4 is out, then I get a bit more picky with what to push to
Linus. If it's not a regression (something that's been broken for a
while) I don't push it. -rc5, I get even pickier, and by -rc6 and
beyond, I only push things that may crash the kernel. If things just
give bad output (for tracing), I tag it with stable and wait for the
merge window.
3.10 was actually really bad for me. I had some major changes done to
ftrace, and there were a lot of patches sent to me after -rc4 came out.
A lot of them were nits and didn't crash the kernel, thus I only tagged
them with stable. Some of them, we didn't get correct until Linus opened
the merge window.
Maybe this would be a good KS topic. What exactly is appropriate to push
during the -rc's. Perhaps have criteria for the -rc levels.
-rc1-3, take all bug fixes.
-rc4,5, regressions, and more substantial bugs
-rc6-.. get your act together. Only critical bug fixes.
??
-- Steve
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Thread overview: 202+ 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 ` [ 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 [this message]
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
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 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 18:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 19:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-16 19:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 20:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-17 2:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17 9:43 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-16 18:48 ` Willy Tarreau
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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