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" <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>> Cc: DJ Johnston <[email protected]>
> [...]
>
> 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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