Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965476Ab3GLVTQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:19:16 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:47944 "EHLO mail-ob0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757829Ab3GLVTN (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:19:13 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:19:09 -0500 From: "Justin M. Forbes" To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Dave Jones , "Theodore Ts'o" , Guenter Roeck , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable Subject: Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review Message-ID: <20130712211909.GA3797@linuxtx.org> References: <20130711224455.GA17222@kroah.com> <20130712141530.GA3629@roeck-us.net> <20130712173150.GA5534@roeck-us.net> <20130712181103.GA6689@roeck-us.net> <20130712193557.GB342@thunk.org> <1373658551.17876.117.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130712201939.GB15261@redhat.com> <1373660900.17876.124.camel@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1373660900.17876.124.camel@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1153 Lines: 22 On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:28:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > 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. > But distros *do* ship the latest release from Linus. Fedora is often shipping .1 releases, and sometimes .0. This seems to be getting more difficult though as more and more fixes have been left for stable to fix and the Linus release contains a number of known regressions. We know about those regressions not just from following lists, but because we have users running rawhide kernels which are snapshots of Linus' tree almost daily. They see the regressions and complain. So yeah, there are machines out there running Linus' latest tree. Justin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/