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

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 05:15:15PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 02:44:24 -0400 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The following changes since commit 1a695a905c18548062509178b98bc91e67510864:
> > 
> >   Linux 4.7-rc1 (2016-05-29 09:29:24 -0700)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to 86a574de4590ffe6fd3f3ca34cdcf655a78e36ec:
> > 
> >   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?

Yes, please do.  It was getting zero-day checks, and I assumed it was
in linux-next; I should have checked, though.

							- Ted