From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
To: "kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: "sashal@kernel.org" <sashal@kernel.org>,
"ecree@solarflare.com" <ecree@solarflare.com>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"gerlitz.or@gmail.com" <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 09/26] net/mlx5e: Init ethtool steering for representors
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:11:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a5bc4cf3225682e3d79590eeec1ae81774e3c2a.camel@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416130828.1f35b6cf@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 13:08 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:31:25 +0000 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > > > IMHO it doesn't make any sense to take into stable
> > > > automatically
> > > > any patch that doesn't have fixes line. Do you have 1/2/3/4/5
> > > > concrete
> > > > examples from your (referring to your Microsoft employee hat
> > > > comment
> > > > below) or other's people production environment where patches
> > > > proved to
> > > > be necessary but they lacked the fixes tag - would love to see
> > > > them.
> > >
> > > Oh wow, where do you want me to start. I have zillions of these.
> > >
> > > But wait, don't trust me, trust a 3rd party. Here's what
> > > Google's
> > > security team said about the last 9 months of 2019:
> > > - 209 known vulnerabilities patched in LTS kernels, most
> > > without
> > > CVEs
> > > - 950+ criticial non-security bugs fixes for device XXXX alone
> > > with LTS releases
> >
> > So opt-in for these critical or _always_ in use basic kernel
> > sections.
> > but make the default opt-out..
>
> But the less attentive/weaker the maintainers the more benefit from
> autosel they get. The default has to be correct for the group which
> is more likely to take no action.
or the more exposed they are to false positives :), unnoticed bugs due
to wrong patches getting backported.. this could go for years for less
attentive weaker modules, until someone steps on it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 23:13 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 01/26] net: wan: wanxl: use allow to pass CROSS_COMPILE_M68k for rebuilding firmware Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 02/26] net: phy: probe PHY drivers synchronously Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 04/26] net: phy: mscc: accept all RGMII species in vsc85xx_mac_if_set Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 06/26] mwifiex: set needed_headroom, not hard_header_len Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 07/26] Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle l2cap config request during open state Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 09/26] net/mlx5e: Init ethtool steering for representors Sasha Levin
2020-04-12 7:10 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-12 17:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-04-12 18:29 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-14 1:56 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 7:16 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-14 10:22 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-14 11:09 ` Greg KH
2020-04-14 14:38 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-14 15:16 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 15:49 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-14 17:37 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-14 19:03 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-04-14 21:00 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 22:50 ` Michal Kubecek
2020-04-15 5:31 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-15 14:07 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-14 20:57 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-15 16:18 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-16 0:00 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 4:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 5:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-16 13:30 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 19:07 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 19:58 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 21:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-17 8:28 ` gregkh
2020-04-17 22:23 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-18 10:51 ` gregkh
2020-04-17 13:21 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-17 22:38 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 13:40 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-16 14:04 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 14:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-16 14:36 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 17:20 ` Greg KH
2020-04-16 19:31 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 19:53 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-16 21:32 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 23:23 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-21 3:07 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-04-16 20:08 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-04-16 21:11 ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]
2020-04-17 8:25 ` gregkh
2020-04-16 16:06 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-16 18:49 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-20 11:45 ` Edward Cree
2020-04-20 12:53 ` Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 10/26] Bluetooth: Fix calculation of SCO handle for packet processing Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:13 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 11/26] Bluetooth: guard against controllers sending zero'd events Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 13/26] net: intel: e1000e: fix possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in e1000e_get_hw_semaphore() Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 19/26] Bluetooth: RFCOMM: fix ODEBUG bug in rfcomm_dev_ioctl Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 20/26] brcmfmac: Fix driver crash on USB control transfer timeout Sasha Levin
2020-04-11 23:14 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 26/26] svcrdma: Fix leak of transport addresses Sasha Levin
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