On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 04:06:26PM -0700, Kilian Cavalotti wrote: > 2. the only supported release is the latest one, meaning that if you > have to stay on say CentOS 6.7 for whatever reason, you don't get a > kernel with the Dirty COW fix. And that is obviously a problem.
This is a good time to remind everyone that CentOS 6.7 isn't the same as RHEL 6.7. When you pay Red Hat, they'll provide security patches when you stay with non-tip point releases. CentOS only provides packages for the tip, so, if you aren't on the tip (6 tip is currently 6.8), you're missing security fixes for a lot more things than just Dirty COW. Yeah, I used to be one of the vendors, and I was sad that we never got close to providing good support for CentOS tip. I'm not surprised that it's still a problem 9 years later. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
