From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] md: Turn rdev->sb_offset into a sector-based quantity.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:38:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18564.26416.6888.381849@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Andre Noll on Thursday July 17
On Thursday July 17, maan@systemlinux.org wrote:
>
> It might be worth to get fixes for these two bugs into -stable.
>
> Here's a patch against mainline. Please forward to stable@... if
> you agree.
A question definitely worth considering.
I think in this case they don't qualify. The bug are in sanity
checks, and they make the checks too weak. They don't actually cause
incorrect behaviour in any credible scenario.
As the bugs don't open a security hole, don't cause data corruption,
and don't trigger an 'oops', they don't really qualify for -stable.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 9:15 [PATCH 0/5] md: sector_t conversions Andre Noll
2008-07-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] md: Make update_size() take the number of sectors Andre Noll
2008-07-11 10:56 ` Neil Brown
2008-07-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] md: Replace calc_dev_size() by calc_num_sectors() Andre Noll
2008-07-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] md: Make calc_dev_sboffset() return a sector count Andre Noll
2008-07-11 11:04 ` Neil Brown
2008-07-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] md: Turn rdev->sb_offset into a sector-based quantity Andre Noll
2008-07-11 11:15 ` Neil Brown
2008-07-17 9:40 ` Andre Noll
2008-07-21 10:38 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2008-07-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] md: Remove some unused macros Andre Noll
2008-07-11 12:18 ` [PATCH 0/5] md: sector_t conversions Neil Brown
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