From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:25:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs Message-Id: <20060906192511.GA14579@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <44FC193C.4080205@openvz.org> <20060906182733.GJ2558@parisc-linux.org> <20060906184509.GA15942@kroah.com> <20060906191215.GK2558@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20060906191215.GK2558@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kirill Korotaev , tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Fernando Vazquez , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , devel@openvz.org, xemul@openvz.org On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:12:16PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:45:09AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:27:33PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:24:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > If MIPS and parisc don't matter for the stable tree (very possible - there > > > > are no big commercial distributions for them), then dammit, neither should > > > > ia64 and sparc (there are no big commercial distros for them either). > > > > > > Erm, RHEL and SLES both support ia64. > > > > Yes, but the -stable developers don't build for those arches, that's why > > it was missed here. > > What's the easiest way to get coverage here? Sending a parisc > workstation or server to someone? Giving accounts to some/all of the > stable team? Finding someone who cares about parisc to join the stable > team? How about: Someone from that arch trying out the -stable release canidates to make sure it doesn't break anything on their arches / favorite machine? And no, I really don't want a parisc machine here :) thanks, greg k-h