alt Hacker NewsThe reporter made a website explicitly calling out Ubuntu, RedHat, Amazon, and SUSE but didn’t notify them, and you think that’s reasonable? That they might not have known those distributions are downstream from the kernel team?
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sigmar • yesterday at 8:34 PM
What is the heuristic for who should get the heads up? Should they notify amazon but not google simply because they named amazon linux in the report? Seems to me the answer to my first question gets messy fast.
If you notify the kernel and they ship a fix, it seems reasonable to expect that they will communicate the fix to the distros.
I see this as an organizational failure of the Linux ecosystem. There should be better communication between distro and kernel development.