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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5.10 000/163] 5.10.119-rc1 review
On 5/27/22 08:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 04:14:21PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.119 release.
>>> There are 163 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>
>> Is there some kind of back-story why we are doing massive changes to
>> /dev/random? 5.19-rc1 is not even out, so third of those changes did
>> not get much testing.
>
> Did you miss the posting on the stable list that described all of this:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/YouECCoUA6eZEwKf@zx2c4.com/
>

That describes _what_ is done, but not _why_ the patches needed to be
backported to older kernels. Normally I would see those as enhancements,
not as bug fixes. Given that we (ChromeOS) have been hit by rng related
issues before (specifically boot stalls on some hardware), I am quite
concerned about the possible impact of this series for stable releases.

Guenter

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