From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:13:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ben Hutchings Cc: James Bottomley , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag Message-ID: <20130716061324.GA19052@kroah.com> References: <1373916476.2748.69.camel@dabdike> <20130715214422.GA2478@kroah.com> <1373941801.31067.113.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1373941801.31067.113.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:30:01AM +0100, Ben Hutchings 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. greg k-h