Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751949AbcDUM45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:56:57 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:23932 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751657AbcDUM4z (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:56:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:56:49 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Sasha Levin Cc: LKML , stable , lwn@lwn.net Subject: Re: stable-security kernel updates Message-ID: <20160421125649.GA9926@1wt.eu> References: <5717DD8A.4000707@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5717DD8A.4000707@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 25 On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:50:34PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > Updates for stable-security kernels have been released: > > - v3.12.58-security > - v3.14.67-security > - v3.18.31-security > - v4.1.22-security > - v4.4.8-security > - v4.5.2-security Sasha, regardless the rest of the discussion in this thread, I find myself confused by the naming above. For me, 3.12.58-something means "something" on top of 3.12.58. Many (most? all?) forks work like this, but here it seems that instead it's 3.12 + your selection of fixes from kernels up to 3.12.58. I guess it would be much less confusing to call it something like 3.12.0-security58 or something like this (or maybe simply 3.12.0.58). Some people might be tempted to upgrade from 3.12.40 to 3.12.58-security and will possibly discover some breakage due to bugs that were fixed between 3.12 and 3.12.40 and which are not fixed in 3.12.58-security. Thanks, willy