Re: [PATCH 1/2] random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Jan 22 2017 - 10:20:44 EST


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 01:21:39PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey Greg,
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 03:08:12PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> >> Hi Ted,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Oh, I see.
> >> >
> >> > So that's not how I would do things, but it's fine.
> >>
> >>
> >> Great, alright. In what tree should I look for these two commits? Or
> >> should I send it to the drivers/char maintainer (now CCd)?
> >
> > No objection from me, but as the core stuff is in the networking tree,
> > maybe it makes more sense for them to flow through there?
>
> The core stuff is not in the networking tree. This is nothing to do
> with the networking tree in any way at all. There might be some
> confusion because the initial discussions came from the siphash stuff,
> which is in the networking tree, but Ted and I choose a different
> route, going with chacha instead of siphash. So this is 0%
> network-related.

Sorry, you are correct, I am confused here.

> > Ted, any objection to that?
>
> Seems like either you pull or Ted pulls it.

Can you repost these? They are gone from my patch queue.

Ted, any objection for me to take these?

thanks,

greg k-h