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Re: stable-security kernel updates

From Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: stable-security kernel updates
Date 2016-04-21 15:00 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:39:18PM +0900, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:05:41PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 04/21/2016, 01:59 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > >> (CVE-2016-2085) 613317b EVM: Use crypto_memneq() for digest comparisons
> > > 
> > > Does not exist in the CVE database/is not confirmed yet AFAICS.
> > 
> > And now I am looking at the patch and I remember why I threw it away.
> > crypto_memneq is not in 3.12 yet and I was not keen enough to backport  it.
> 
> Which brings up the question, Sasha, why did you think these CVEs were
> relevant for 3.12?  What were you basing that list on?

Yep same question here because in fact checking what is *missing* is
harder than checking what should not have been there. I'm pretty sure
I missed a lot of things in 2.6.32 (though Ben and Moritz helped a lot)
but precisely the fact that they provided me fixes I wasn't aware of is
a sign that I can miss things.
 
Any reliable process to check for missing fixes is welcome of course. For
now the best way I found is to pick from more recent stable versions, which
also ensures people upgrading from and older branch to a newer branch will
not find a bug they used to see fixed.

Cheers,
Willy

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stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-20 22:00 +0200
  Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 08:50 +0200
    Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 09:20 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 13:30 +0200
        Re: stable-security kernel updates Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-04-21 14:40 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:10 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200
    Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 13:20 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 14:10 +0200
        Re: stable-security kernel updates Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-04-21 14:40 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 15:00 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:00 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200
              Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200
              Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:30 +0200
                Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 16:40 +0200
                Re: stable-security kernel updates Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-26 01:20 +0200
                Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-26 06:50 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 14:10 +0200
        Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:00 +0200
          Re: stable-security kernel updates Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2016-04-21 17:00 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 18:00 +0200
            Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 21:40 +0200
      Re: stable-security kernel updates Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2016-04-21 14:30 +0200
  Re: stable-security kernel updates Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2016-04-21 15:00 +0200
    Re: stable-security kernel updates Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> - 2016-04-21 16:20 +0200

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