From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932092AbWCBJtU (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 04:49:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751969AbWCBJtU (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 04:49:20 -0500 Received: from webapps.arcom.com ([194.200.159.168]:13833 "EHLO webapps.arcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751425AbWCBJtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 04:49:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4406BF95.8060501@cantab.net> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:49:09 +0000 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15.5 References: <20060301231907.GR3883@sorel.sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: <20060301231907.GR3883@sorel.sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Mar 2006 09:49:12.0609 (UTC) FILETIME=[8F7E4910:01C63DDE] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wright wrote: > We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.15.5 > kernel. > > [...] > > Alexey Kuznetsov: Fix a severe bug Can we have more descriptive patch summaries in future? At least include the subsystem! Here's the description I dug out of the web interface to git: "netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink. Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket, so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be, and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock of rtnetlink." David Vrabel