Re: [PATCH] random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf()

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 19:51:33 EST


On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 10:37 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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 <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: DJ Johnston <dj.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>
[...]

This is not the correct way to submit patches for stable; see
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Ben.
(needs to get one of those form letters like Greg)

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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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