Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 2020 08:54:10 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.9 639/757] random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable |
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:54:13AM +0200, Amit Klein wrote: > Unfortunately, I'm just a security researcher, not a kernel developer... > > Does that mean you don't plan to back-port the patch?
I could possibly have a look, but quite frankly I'm not convinced that we need to backport this at all. I think that what we've done is mostly to be future-proof and that the likelihood of practical attacks against live systems with the previous fix are close to zero.
Cheers, Willy
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