Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 May 2022 09:59:14 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/163] 5.10.119-rc1 review |
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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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