On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 15:44 -0500, David Miller wrote: > It is more fun than waiting longer for the more limited uses of it to > trigger problems. > > I cannot be convinced that using it in more places in order to find > and fix more bugs is a bad thing. > > I'm sorry if a lot of bug fixes in a short period of time concerns > you, but for me that's an even clearer sign that it needs help, and > exposing it to more use cases is one of the best forms of help it can > get. > > It also tells me that the people actually working on those fixes, such > as Herbert Xu, are motivated and reliable when they are shown properly > formed bug reports. > > I cannot think of a report Herbert and others did not resolve in a > timely manner. They usually add test cases too. I have no doubts we can fix bugs in upstream kernels in a few days (at most). The problem is when a customer is stuck using a distro, with a release cycle of extra months after upstream fixes. I had to deal with customers having issues with resolvers hitting the netlink/rhashtable bugs, and I can tell you it was not pretty nor funny. Seeing all these SCTP bugs being currently tracked/fixed (reports from Dmitry Vyukov), I am concerned about having to backport fixes into old kernels without proper rhashtable if now SCTP relies heavily on rhashtable. Hopefully nothing bad will happen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
