From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mageia.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 08:28:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181204072833.GB25998@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2de96c1b-c375-8eed-f934-df5cbcdcd5cc@mageia.org>
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:22:46PM +0159, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Den 2018-12-03 kl. 11:22, skrev Sasha Levin:
>
> >
> > This is a case where theory collides with the real world. Yes, our QA is
> > lacking, but we don't have the option of not doing the current process.
> > If we stop backporting until a future data where our QA problem is
> > solved we'll end up with what we had before: users stuck on ancient
> > kernels without a way to upgrade.
> >
>
> Sorry, but you seem to be living in a different "real world"...
>
> People stay on "ancient kernels" that "just works" instead of updating
> to a newer one that "hopefully/maybe/... works"
That's not good as those "ancient kernels" really just are "kernels with
lots of known security bugs".
It's your systems, I can't tell you what to do, but I will tell you that
running older, unfixed kernels, is a known liability.
Good luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-04 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-29 6:00 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 01/35] media: omap3isp: Unregister media device as first Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 02/35] iommu/vt-d: Fix NULL pointer dereference in prq_event_thread() Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 03/35] brcmutil: really fix decoding channel info for 160 MHz bandwidth Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 04/35] iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix crash on early domain free Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 05/35] can: rcar_can: Fix erroneous registration Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 06/35] test_firmware: fix error return getting clobbered Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 07/35] HID: input: Ignore battery reported by Symbol DS4308 Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 08/35] batman-adv: Use explicit tvlv padding for ELP packets Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 09/35] batman-adv: Expand merged fragment buffer for full packet Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 10/35] amd/iommu: Fix Guest Virtual APIC Log Tail Address Register Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 11/35] bnx2x: Assign unique DMAE channel number for FW DMAE transactions Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 12/35] qed: Fix PTT leak in qed_drain() Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 13/35] qed: Fix reading wrong value in loop condition Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 14/35] Revert "usb: gadget: ffs: Fix BUG when userland exits with submitted AIO transfers" Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 15/35] net/mlx4_core: Zero out lkey field in SW2HW_MPT fw command Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 16/35] net/mlx4_core: Fix uninitialized variable compilation warning Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 17/35] net/mlx4: Fix UBSAN warning of signed integer overflow Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 18/35] gpio: mockup: fix indicated direction Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 19/35] mtd: rawnand: qcom: Namespace prefix some commands Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 20/35] exec: make de_thread() freezable Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 21/35] HID: multitouch: Add pointstick support for Cirque Touchpad Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 22/35] mtd: spi-nor: Fix Cadence QSPI page fault kernel panic Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 23/35] qed: Fix bitmap_weight() check Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 24/35] qed: Fix QM getters to always return a valid pq Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 12:14 ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-29 12:47 ` Greg KH
2018-11-29 22:40 ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-30 8:22 ` Greg KH
2018-11-30 10:14 ` Sasha Levin
2018-11-30 20:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-11-30 21:50 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-01 7:49 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-01 9:09 ` XFS patches for stable Amir Goldstein
2018-12-02 15:25 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-02 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-02 20:08 ` Greg KH
2018-12-03 14:41 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-03 16:56 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-02 23:23 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 25/35] iomap: sub-block dio needs to zeroout beyond EOF Dave Chinner
2018-12-03 7:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-12-03 9:22 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-03 21:23 ` Thomas Backlund
2018-12-04 7:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-12-04 8:12 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-28 8:06 ` Pavel Machek
2018-12-29 23:35 ` Dave Chinner
2018-11-30 21:45 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-02 20:11 ` Greg KH
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 26/35] net: faraday: ftmac100: remove netif_running(netdev) check before disabling interrupts Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 27/35] iommu/vt-d: Use memunmap to free memremap Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 28/35] flexfiles: use per-mirror specified stateid for IO Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 29/35] net: thunderx: set xdp_prog to NULL if bpf_prog_add fails Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 30/35] ibmvnic: Fix RX queue buffer cleanup Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 31/35] virtio-net: disable guest csum during XDP set Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 32/35] virtio-net: fail XDP set if guest csum is negotiated Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 33/35] team: no need to do team_notify_peers or team_mcast_rejoin when disabling port Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 34/35] net: amd: add missing of_node_put() Sasha Levin
2018-11-29 6:01 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 35/35] net: thunderx: set tso_hdrs pointer to NULL in nicvf_free_snd_queue Sasha Levin
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