Mark Martinec
2017-Nov-30 13:55 UTC
Should patch releases to stable 11.1 (errata) include fixes for kernel crashes?
Should patch releases to stable 11.1 (errata) include fixes for kernel crashes? Referring to: Bug 222259 - 11.1-R crashing in sendfile syscall, as used by a uwsgi process https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222259 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=323634 So my background story is: I fell for this trick twice now, upgrading a 11.1-p3 to -p4, and now a -p4 to -p5 -- forgetting that I need a patched kernel for our web servers (quite a common setup: nginx+uwsgi); so after an upgrade crashes returned. I know, my fault, but I wonder, shouldn't a fix for kernel crashes end up in a patch release of a stable version, with an errata notice? Mark