Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757432AbYGFUXr (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756618AbYGFUXj (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:23:39 -0400 Received: from r00tworld.com ([212.85.137.21]:35168 "EHLO r00tworld.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756383AbYGFUXj (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:23:39 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1049 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:23:38 EDT From: pageexec@freemail.hu To: Greg KH Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.10 Reply-to: pageexec@freemail.hu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Message-ID: <486D4541.25808.C600354@pageexec.freemail.hu> In-reply-to: <20080703185727.GA12617@suse.de> References: <20080703035807.GA8190@kroah.com>, <20080703172914.GA11123@suse.de>, <20080703185727.GA12617@suse.de> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.12 (r00tworld.com [212.85.137.21]); Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:32:16 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 32 [spender's asked to be off the CC] On 3 Jul 2008 at 11:57, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Adding 2 more addresses to this thread, as they were said to have > questions about this kernel release. not only this one, but every commit for the past few years that fixed bugs with security impact. for reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/285438/ http://lwn.net/Articles/286263/ http://lwn.net/Articles/287339/ http://lwn.net/Articles/288473/ > Again, if the above information is somehow insufficient as to what > exactly is fixed in the -stable releases, and anyone has questions about > how these release announcements are created, please let me know. what is the disclosure policy used for commits fixing bugs with security impact (both vanilla and -stable, especially if there's a difference)? what do you include/omit? how does it relate to what is declared in Documentation/SecurityBugs? -- 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/