From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:37:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs Message-Id: <20060907153746.GA29602@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <44FC193C.4080205@openvz.org> <20060906182733.GJ2558@parisc-linux.org> <20060906184509.GA15942@kroah.com> <20060906191215.GK2558@parisc-linux.org> <20060906192511.GA14579@kroah.com> <1157634702.30159.89.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> In-Reply-To: <1157634702.30159.89.camel@aeonflux.holtmann.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Matthew Wilcox , 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 Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > > > 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? > > this won't work for security hot-fixes, because you basically don't do a > release candidate for them. We should think about this, too. Well, short of me and Chris getting one of every arch out there (which I don't recommend), I think we will just get by as we have been doing in the past. thanks, greg k-h