Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Jul 12 2013 - 16:31:51 EST


On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 16:19 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:

> I would suspect that machines that allow unprivileged users would be
> running distro kernels, and not the latest release from Linus, and thus
> even a bug that "can allow an unprivileged user to crash the kernel" may
> still be able to sit around for a month before being submitted.

That said, when I find a bug that can allow this, I still tend to make
it #1 priority and get it out as quick as possible. Maybe a week at
most. I had one such bug that only affected a -rc1 release, and I made
sure the fix made it into -rc2.

-- Steve


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