Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754615AbcDKSeU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:34:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f193.google.com ([209.85.213.193]:33373 "EHLO mail-ig0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752873AbcDKSeS (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:34:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <570BE4A5.20200@oracle.com> References: <570BE4A5.20200@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:34:17 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-stable security tree From: Jeff Merkey To: Sasha Levin Cc: LKML , stable , lwn@lwn.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2017 Lines: 63 On 4/11/16, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'd like to announce the linux-stable security tree project. The purpose > is to create a derivative tree from the regular stable tree that would > contain only commits that fix security vulnerabilities. > > Quite a few users of the stable trees pointed out that on complex > deployments, > where validation is non-trivial, there is little incentive to follow the > stable tree after the product has been deployed to production. There is no > interest in "random" kernel fixes and the only requirements are to keep up > with security vulnerabilities. > > Given this, a few projects preferred to delay important kernel updates, and > a few even stopped updating the tree altogether, exposing them to critical > vulnerabilities. > > This project provides an easy way to receive only important security > commits, > which are usually only a few in each release, and makes it easy to > incorporate > them into existing projects. > > The tree is available at: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable-security.git/ > > Support is provided for all active -stable trees > (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html). > Branches/tags for unsupported versions of >=3.0 kernels were also generated > for reference. > > > Thanks, > Sasha > > > Hi Sasha, [root@166-70-213-246 kernel]# [root@166-70-213-246 kernel]# [root@166-70-213-246 kernel]# git clone https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable-security.git Cloning into 'linux-stable-security'... fatal: repository 'https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable-security.git/' not found [root@166-70-213-246 kernel]# git clone https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable-security.git Cloning into 'linux-stable-security'... fatal: repository 'https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux-stable-security.git/' not found [root@166-70-213-246 kernel]# Git says the tree is not clonable. Jeff