On 01/08/2015, 02:49 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 07:53:14PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:34:44PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>>> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any >>>> objections, please let us know. >>> >>> IMHO this is not stable material. Significant risk you broke >>> something obscure, and it's not clear it fixes any real problem. >> >> Then why is it in Linus's tree? >> >>> At least wait some more time first. >> >> How long should we wait? 3.19 to be released? This does seem to fix a >> real problem as the changelog points out. > > It even has a CVE (CVE-2014-9419). Hi, is the patch needed for kernels < 3.14 (before kASLR)? The commit message is so poor, that I do not see what it fixes at all. Could you elaborate? I indeed can run estest with failures on 3.12. But what does it mean to me would be nice to have explained... 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