Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:32:14 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() |
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On 07/25/2012 04:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 10:37 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> >> >> RDRAND is so much faster than the Linux pool system that we can >> always just mix in architectural randomness. > [...] >> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> >> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> >> Cc: DJ Johnston <dj.johnston@intel.com> > [...] > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for stable; see > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt >
The patch is intended to fix the security regression that would be caused if Ted's random.git patches are accepted in -stable, which isn't clear to me if they will be or not, so I added the Cc: to keep it from getting lost.
-hpa
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