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Vous m'avez dit récemment : |
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> Hi, |
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hi, |
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> For example, bug 249729 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249729) is a |
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> security bug that affect a lot of versions ( |
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> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32516/info). |
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> Also, i may be wrong... i don't think it is a very dangerous bug... but it |
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> is a security bug anyway. |
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> So, what the KernelTeam do in this case? |
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> First, genpatches and gentoo-sources have in cvs-trunk 2.6.25, 2.6.26, |
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> 2.6.27 and now is creating the structure for 2.6.28. But let focus on .25, |
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> .26 and .27 that are the stable kernel releases. |
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> For .27, the 2.6.27.8 stable review cycle is in process, so when it's |
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> released, KernelTeam just update genpatches to have 2.6.27.8 patch and |
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> release 2.6.26-r4? And ask for stabilization? |
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> For .26, backport to genpatches and release 2.6.26-r4? |
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> Same for .25, and release 2.6.25-r10? |
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> (Or if the patch just apply with no problems, just get it and put it in |
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> there.) |
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it applies cleanly on top of both trees, compiles, boots and runs cool. |
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However, this "fix" doesn't fix all the issues, it just avoids OOM to be |
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triggered, but, softlockups can still take out your mental sanity, and |
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most of it, any instance of X is hardlocked up (by unix sockets |
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starvation). I really don't know of any real benefit... |
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> The older versions, are not suported by genpatches anymore... but they |
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> should stay marked as stable, even with security bugs? |
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I don't know about it |
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> And what is the procedure for the sys-kernel/vanilla-sources ebuilds? Leave |
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> it as it is? Try to stabilize any new version? Take out any version or put ~ |
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> back in them? |
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as far as I can see, vanilla-sources are just ebuilds providing "as-is" |
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_vanilla_ kernel trees. if there are new official vanilla versions, |
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there are provided thru new ebuilds. if no 2.6.26.x is released fixing |
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this ou that -- which is very likely -- no ebuild will be added. |
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Mathieu |
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