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Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/110] 3.2.71-rc1 review

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On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 15:21 -0400, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
> On 08/10/2015 06:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.2.71 release.
> > There are 110 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Wed Aug 12 11:00:00 UTC 2015.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> > A combined patch relative to 3.2.70 will be posted as an additional
> > response to this.  A shortlog and diffstat can be found below.
> > 
> 
> Was thinking I would see upstream commit 
> b6878d9e03043695dbf3fa1caa6dfc09db225b16, overlooked?
> 
> Has been backported by at least Debian in their 3.2 kernel, version 
> 3.2.68-1+deb7u3, to fix CVE-2015-5697.

Funnily enough, I am aware of that. :-)

> Maybe this upstream commit is too new and so it will show up in a later 
> 3.2 stable version?

Yes, it is too new (only released in 4.2-rc6, and I looked for fixes up
to 4.2-rc5).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice.
                                - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers

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[PATCH 3.2 000/110] 3.2.71-rc1 review Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-08-10 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/110] 3.2.71-rc1 review Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-08-10 18:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/110] 3.2.71-rc1 review Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-08-11 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/110] 3.2.71-rc1 review Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2015-08-11 21:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3.2 000/110] 3.2.71-rc1 review Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-08-11 21:30 +0200

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