From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF7371D2B3C for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1728386674; cv=none; b=i7cWTyIcDfugGHYS6Ti14rjE+qaY6oW/vwhWYzIuMY14CoJAgq81FQ8zLvR0x91b+1hfmrHZvsT3NSIWnyG1R3BHmq0kv9+Qiwfzct+t4+aHrrGiUqRdrPl+ljtxXaqm39pYs3Ig51ZtZoSAZbnZPz48DCqV+nh7JUVh9dot+1M= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1728386674; c=relaxed/simple; bh=XSXFPh3AhgdMX/aQ2nRzmtyqm+US3yShKHue+ysilXo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=dUN6P9NtBMccUJmuHQcHDgyEro0TrZyp/FNfNCFCwYwy8SgxoU1ORmWP/YYihFxuKOLbRe6uQ+Udxpu0ir21QwBu5YqhLXNEhS4hGpcu0Cdbkc8pqkOrmeG6LqhD+Bxt4OEOllUr4igJacwcZ/NF5IV+zAzyElGJ+cfMWBGfH3A= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=KXer0U3n; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="KXer0U3n" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE05CC4CECC; Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:24:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1728386674; bh=XSXFPh3AhgdMX/aQ2nRzmtyqm+US3yShKHue+ysilXo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KXer0U3ngcCoYAqa0synU7wQPOyPfPIno6apR/ptZnSMMCi/C6mCzBfFtqtAA4z3D 4veaOg+5FHFkzpG/RIclCeEVitNbqnJauPoszNfqktTA9DvLiPviG/r77iP7sS1kb3 /ghDhPeuj6x7fCeZ/3OfI3Y5BCxvFeGr10TyhbKI= Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 13:24:31 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Pavel Machek Cc: Vegard Nossum , Jens Axboe , stable@vger.kernel.org, cengiz.can@canonical.com, mheyne@amazon.de, mngyadam@amazon.com, kuntal.nayak@broadcom.com, ajay.kaher@broadcom.com, zsm@chromium.org, dan.carpenter@linaro.org, shivani.agarwal@broadcom.com, ahalaney@redhat.com, alsi@bang-olufsen.dk, ardb@kernel.org, benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com, bli@bang-olufsen.dk, chengzhihao1@huawei.com, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, ebiggers@kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, fancer.lancer@gmail.com, florian.fainelli@broadcom.com, harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com, hdegoede@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com, jgg@nvidia.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, kuba@kernel.org, luiz.von.dentz@intel.com, md.iqbal.hossain@intel.com, mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca, nicolinc@nvidia.com, pablo@netfilter.org, rfoss@kernel.org, richard@nod.at, tfiga@chromium.org, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com, xiaolei.wang@windriver.com, yanjun.zhu@linux.dev, yi.zhang@redhat.com, yu.c.chen@intel.com, yukuai3@huawei.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 6.6.y 00/15] Some missing CVE fixes Message-ID: <2024100823-barbed-flatness-631c@gregkh> References: <20241002150606.11385-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com> <612f0415-96c2-4d52-bd3d-46ffa8afbeef@kernel.dk> <69e265b4-fae2-4a60-9652-c8db07da89a1@oracle.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:19:24PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Unfortunately for distributions, there may be various customers or > > government agencies which expect or require all CVEs to be addressed > > (regardless of severity), which is why we're backporting these to stable > > and trying to close those gaps. > > Customers and government will need to understand that with CVEs > assigned the way they are, addressing all of them will be impossible > (or will lead to unstable kernel), unfortunately :-(. Citation needed please.