Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Anyway, I guess the interesting question for us is how long it >> will take for this fix to propagate into real-world systems. >> I don't have much of a clue about the Linux kernel workflow, >> anybody want to venture a guess?
> Me neither. It just hit Torvalds' tree[1] marked "Cc: > sta...@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.27+". I looked at the time for a couple > of other PowerPC-related commits of similar complexity involving some > of the same names to get from there to a Debian stable kernel package > and it seemed to be under a couple of months. > [1] > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63dee5df43a31f3844efabc58972f0a206ca4534 For our archives' sake: today I got seemingly-automated mail informing me that this patch has been merged into the 4.19-stable, 5.4-stable, 5.7-stable, and 5.8-stable kernel branches; but not 4.4-stable, 4.9-stable, or 4.14-stable, because it failed to apply. regards, tom lane
