In message: v5.2.x - stable updates comprising v5.2.60 on 17/09/2020 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Bruce, Yocto kernel folks: > > Here it is. The *final* 5.2.x stable update extension from me. Yay!? > > A quick overview - this maintenance extension - in just under a year, > contained 39 releases (v5.2.22 --> v5.2.60) and about 7800 backports. > So - roughly two hundred backports per release (on average). I wish > the number was smaller, but as it turns out, that was the work done. > > Hopefully nobody is surprised by this ending, with several months of > warning in these release notes being broadcast already. > > The 5.2.60 content here is from an audit of what went into the v5.4.60 > release plus any additional commits listed as "Fixes:" of the chosen > commits (and past backported commits) resulting in about 130 commits. > > There was also a couple specific CVEs that I was aware of and made sure > we had the mainline commits for those present as well. I hope that the > transparency of what was used, and the evolution repo below will help > anyone else who wants to continue v5.2 maintenance have an easier job. > > There will always be one more commit/CVE, but as per the v4.8 and 4.12 > and 4.18 extensions from the past, one has to draw a line in the sand. > > I've put this release through my normal testing, with build tests > on x86-64/32, ARM-64/32, PPC and MIPS, plus some static analysis and > finally some sanity runtime tests on x86-64 (raw + qemu/KVM). Thanks for all the time spent on this Paul. If anyone sends more changes (i.e. just CVEs), I'll of course continue to merge them. But without your change queues, the 5.2 content is now frozen and EOL in my tries. Cheers, Bruce > > Please find tag v5.2.60 (3ab42df9927f8a1dd5f49107242f0d6f61eeab3c) as > the current head of linux-5.2.y branch in the repo in the kernel.org > directory here: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git/?h=linux-5.2.y > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git > > for merge to standard/base in linux-yocto-5.2 and then out from there > into the other base and BSP branches. > > For those who are interested, the evolution of the commits is here: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-5.2.git/ > > This repo isn't needed for anything; it just exists for transparency and > so people can see the evolution of the raw commits that were originally > selected to create this 5.2.x release. > > Thanks to all the users and people who provided feedback. > Paul.
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