Re: Backporting stacked security patch

2018-10-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:19:08PM +0300, Lev Olshvang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for a reply. > > While diff between two kernels is indeed tremendous, the commits which were > done in security subsystem do not look too bid,. > There are 7 commits, and 2 of them is about comments and one

Re: Backporting stacked security patch

2018-10-30 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:19:08 +0300, Lev Olshvang said: > As I stated, I have no option to come to customer and ask to upgrade his > kernel, but I will try to put his attention to mentioned by you cease of > security updates. If you can't get him to upgrade the installed kernel, it's not worth

Re: Backporting stacked security patch

2018-10-30 Thread Lev Olshvang
Hi Greg, Thanks for a reply. While diff between two kernels is indeed tremendous, the commits which were done in security subsystem do not look too bid,. There are 7 commits, and 2 of them is about comments and one about file deletion. I see that in 4.1 Smack was changed (couple of commits)

Re: Backporting stacked security patch

2018-10-30 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 02:43:12PM +0300, Lev Olshvang wrote: > Hi All, > > I week ago I asked the list about kernel 4.2 stacked security patch location > , but > Greg strongly advised me against, without going into details. > I highly appreciate Greg advice, and I know he is a very busy