On 06/25/2014 06:02 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any >> objections, please let us know. > > Hmm, you'll be adding this because of CVE-2014-4171 > (somewhat overrated in my opinion, but I am naive). > > I don't think there's anything wrong with this patch itself, it works. > But I did not realize that it was going to blow into a -stable issue, > and I would have tried harder in a different direction if I had known > that it would require backporting (beyond v3.5). > > I'm still in the course of preparing a reply to Vlastimil's mail of > yesterday; but I expect we shall want to go much more in his direction, > for a more backportable fix, and revert this one here as over-elaborate. > I have some more thought and testing to do before replying. > > So I'd prefer that you drop this one from your tree for now - thanks. Ok, now dropped. Thanks. -- js suse labs -- 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