Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

Greg KH
2013-07-16T16:36:15Z

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:11:24AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > Anything that's being reviewed on the stable list is public. I know
> > > this is an old argument, but if you point out a fix you *know* has a
> > > security impact then you'll help general distribution maintainers and
> > > users a lot more than you help the black-hats who are quite capable of
> > > recognising such a fix (if they haven't already spotted and exploited
> > > the bug).
> >
> > I'm sorry, but you know I will not do that, so asking about it isn't
> > going to change this behavior.
>
> I just followed up in the other thread, where Ted was explaining why the
> huge /dev/random rework was a -stable material.
>
> Why specifically would it be wrong to be open about this being security
> related, and providing the necessary data (i.e. at least reference to
> http://factorable.net/) publically?
>
> I fail to see what the point behind hiding this would be.

I'm not "hiding" anything, all I'm doing is using the exact same
changelog comments that are in Linus's tree, and nothing else.

greg k-h