Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754310AbZI3WqI (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753123AbZI3WqG (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34122 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751120AbZI3WqG (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC3DF7B.5060407@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:45:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "David S. Miller" , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber References: <20090926192748.GX7681@const.famille.thibault.fr> <20090930154044.0c7ace16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090930154044.0c7ace16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 19 On 09/30/2009 03:40 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > You describe it as "trivial" and also cc stable@kernel.org. These things > are contradictory! > > Maybe backporting it is a good idea from a sleep-soundly-at-night POV. > I don't know.. > /me suspects it was supposed to mean "trivially correct", which isn't really what "trivial" means. This is a potentially serious bug and should be treated as such. -hpa -- 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/