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Bug#812207: linux: AUFS can hang up; Please update to v20160111 or later



On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 14:41 -0800, Zachary Loafman wrote:
> Ben -
> 
> Thanks for queueing these. I've been trying to figure out the process from
> this point forward, though, and wondering if you can help educate me.
> Looking at
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/linux/?C=M;O=A, it
> looks like there has been at least (4.3.5-1) unstable and (4.4.1-1~exp1)
> experimental builds since the patches were queued, but I don't think I saw
> the aufs patches in those changelogs. I also haven't yet seen any builds
> beyond those, and those are both lower urgency, it looks like.

Those versions of the kernel package do not include aufs at all.  (They
do have a few supporting changes that allow aufs to be built separately
as a module.)

> If these were queued for a security update, is there a deadline timer
> before they go out for jessie-security and wheezy-backports, or does it
> just mean they're on a security train that goes out with the next CVE?

The latter.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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