Cook: security things in Linux v5.1

Posted Jun 4, 2019 19:43 UTC (Tue) by bnorris (subscriber, #92090)
In reply to: Cook: security things in Linux v5.1 by bnorris
Parent article: Cook: security things in Linux v5.1

> What "most" are you looking at?

Ah, so I see there were multiple links:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...

The first shows all the noisy patches that don't fix real bugs, where the latter showed true bugfixes. It's possible there was a miscommunication in the OP to which I originally replied. (It's also possible the blog has been updated in the meantime.) As I see it, the "missing break" link was not misleading: it lists a moderate number of real bugfixes.

But indeed, there were many more patches to silence the warnings than there were patches to fix bugs. Such is life when cleaning up the edges of a language like C.