Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:18:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: pageexec@freemail.hu
cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, pageexec@freemail.hu wrote:
>
> in any case, i don't see why you can't put keywords into the commit
> that say the bug being fixed is 'security related' or 'potentially 
> exploitable', etc. people can then decide how to prioritize them.

Because I see no point. Quite often, we don't even realize some random bug 
could have been a security issue.

It's not worth my energy, in other words. 

			Linus
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