Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:59:54 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for 5.3-rc5 |
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:46:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > No hurry, and I don't care deeply when this goes in. It looks safe and > harmless, so any time as far as I'm concerned - whatever is most > convenient for people. > > This is more of a "let's protect against any future issues" than > anything critical right now.
Yeah.
> And I suspect it just means that next time somebody screws up rdrand, > they'll screw it up to be a simple counter instead of just returning > all-ones,
I'm reading this, and, for some reason, not even the slightest ounce of surprise is materializing in me. I wonder why that is...
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