On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:33:35PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > binpatchng can help you with this process. > > I will have to look into that > > > But note that -stable sometimes has extra commits that don't have errata; > > release+patches is not quite the same thing as -stable. > > Can you give 1 or 2 examples?
They happen whenever a fix is backported but not deemed critical enough or in wide enough use for errata. Here's the first two I found in 5.5-stable, there may be others but I stopped looking, since you just wanted a couple of examples. --- CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [email protected] 2014/09/07 13:41:51 Modified files: sys/dev/pci : Tag: OPENBSD_5_5 virtio.c virtiovar.h Log message: Fix hang with virtio event_idx feature backported from current virtio.c 1.6 / virtiovar.h 1.5: date: 2014/06/15 11:18:39; author: sf; commitid: 8b7wbadq7EgTO3mO; When using the RING_EVENT_IDX feature, we must first call publish_avail_idx() and then read VQ_AVAIL_EVENT(vq), or there is a race condition that may cause us to miss that the host needs to be notified. This resulted in an occasional hang of network in vio(4). --- VSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [email protected] 2014/04/20 18:30:48 Modified files: usr.bin/ssh : Tag: OPENBSD_5_5 bufaux.c compat.c compat.h sshconnect2.c sshd.c version.h Log message: MFC: reliability fix for OpenSSH using [email protected] key exchange method. ---
