Re: [Security] [patch] random: make get_random_int() more random

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Jake Edge wrote:
>
> It seems like this should be queued up for stable, yes?  I just saw the
> 2.6.29.4 review patches go out, but this wasn't part of it ...

Well, I was hoping to maybe have actual timing numbers from some better 
hash, in case Matt can make one that is efficient enough. So I committed 
the randomness improvement as a clear _improvement_ over what we had, but 
it may not be the final version.

That said, I guess the same argument can be used for pushing it towards 
stable too. Even if we end up doing something fancier, the patch is 
clearly not any worse than what we have currently.

		Linus
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