On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:46:32AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 06/21/2013 11:30 AM, Mike Pagano wrote: > >This should be written down and if it's not that's probably on me as I > >am the only kernel person (i think) that was involved in the decision > >and is still around. > > Nope, I was there. It was the IA32 on amd64 syscall local root > exploit that got us "blogged" about ... remember that :) > > Anyhow, no brainer here. The kernel is not like the other software > we stabilize. Somewhere in its configuration space and in the > hardware space in which it will be run, there are bugs. Minor > version bumps to address security issues followed by auto > stabilization are the correct thing to do.
So that means every single stable release should be marked stable then, right? thanks, greg k-h
