On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Your example above: If that fix was for "tracing reports wrong results", no big deal, > everyone can live with it for a month. If it was fixing "a bug in tracing can allow > an unprivileged user to crash the kernel", a month is unacceptable, and at > the least we should be getting an interim fix to mitigate the problem. And even that isn't one size fits all. If the exploit is a -rc only, or even a newly released kernel. Is it that critical to get it fixed ASAP? I would think that the kernel releases takes time before they get to users main machines. I would suspect that machines that allow unprivileged users would be running distro kernels, and not the latest release from Linus, and thus even a bug that "can allow an unprivileged user to crash the kernel" may still be able to sit around for a month before being submitted. This wouldn't be the case if the bug was in older kernels that are being used. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html