Re: stable-security kernel updates

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 07:27:39AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hey Willy,
> 
> On 04/21/2016 03:11 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > This illustrates exactly what I suspected would happen because that's the
> > same trouble we all face when picking backports for our respective trees
> > except that since the selection barrier is much higher here, lots of
> > important ones will be missing
> 
> Right. I fully agree that there will be important security commits that'll
> get missed, whether because they were missed in the stable selection or
> the stable-security selection.
> 
> I'd like to point out again that updating the entire stable tree is the
> preferable way to patch against security (and non-security) issues.

s/preferable/only/ :)

> The
> stable-security tree is a best-effort solution to provide a stop-gap in
> between said stable tree updates.

What are you "stop-gapping" then?  The 7-10 days between stable
releases?

confused,

greg k-h