Re: [GIT PULL] /dev/random driver changes for 4.8

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Jul 25 2016 - 03:15:31 EST


Hi Ted,

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 02:44:24 -0400 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The following changes since commit 1a695a905c18548062509178b98bc91e67510864:
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> Linux 4.7-rc1 (2016-05-29 09:29:24 -0700)
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> are available in the git repository at:
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> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus
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> for you to fetch changes up to 86a574de4590ffe6fd3f3ca34cdcf655a78e36ec:
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> random: strengthen input validation for RNDADDTOENTCNT (2016-07-03 17:09:33 -0400)

Of course none of this has been in linux-next since the random tree was
dropped in March because it had not been updated for more than a year at
that point.

However, at least half of these look like bug fixes (cced to stable).

Should I reinstate the random tree to linux-next?
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell