Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Willy Tarreau Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: Re: stable-security kernel updates Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:00:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Sasha Levin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: robomod@news.nic.it List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 25 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Cc: LKML , stable , lwn@lwn.net X-Original-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:56:49 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20160421125649.GA9926@1wt.eu> X-Original-References: <5717DD8A.4000707@oracle.com> X-Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Xref: csiph.com linux.kernel:1384176 On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 03:50:34PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hi all, > > Updates for stable-security kernels have been released: > > - v3.12.58-security > - v3.14.67-security > - v3.18.31-security > - v4.1.22-security > - v4.4.8-security > - v4.5.2-security Sasha, regardless the rest of the discussion in this thread, I find myself confused by the naming above. For me, 3.12.58-something means "something" on top of 3.12.58. Many (most? all?) forks work like this, but here it seems that instead it's 3.12 + your selection of fixes from kernels up to 3.12.58. I guess it would be much less confusing to call it something like 3.12.0-security58 or something like this (or maybe simply 3.12.0.58). Some people might be tempted to upgrade from 3.12.40 to 3.12.58-security and will possibly discover some breakage due to bugs that were fixed between 3.12 and 3.12.40 and which are not fixed in 3.12.58-security. Thanks, willy