From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] md: Turn rdev->sb_offset into a sector-based quantity. Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:38:40 +1000 Message-ID: <18564.26416.6888.381849@notabene.brown> References: <1215681338-32365-1-git-send-email-maan@systemlinux.org> <1215681338-32365-5-git-send-email-maan@systemlinux.org> <18551.16581.929399.413701@notabene.brown> <20080717094008.GW23944@skl-net.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from Andre Noll on Thursday July 17 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andre Noll Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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