On Jun 28, 2012, at 7:18 , Ola Lundqvist wrote:

> I do not know if there is much point in that. We can do that of course
> but as we soon have a new release without those kernels I do not
> really see the benefit of doing so.


As long as the Debian Squeeze kernels are actively maintained serious 
regressions and/or security issues within OpenVZ should be addressed as well. I 
don't care about small functionality issues since most of the OpenVZ users are 
accustomed to them by now, but if something breaks this needs to be addressed.

If you don't do this, please drop the kernels altogether so that people can 
build an alternate repository and don't get led into the false assumption that 
Debian is taking care of them. The half-assed approach you propose is hurting 
more than it helps.


Rationale:

* The bug can lead to easy denial of service attacks from unprivileged users 
within containers
* The (unverified?) fix for this bug is a 4 line diff.
* Wheezy Puppet includes code that reads /proc/self/mountinfo causing 
puppet-managed Wheezy containers on Squeeze OpenVZ hosts to exhibit the DoS 
scenario outlined above.

all the best,
Michael




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