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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 07:50:23 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: mancha security <mancha1@zoho.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10.x/3.12.x] net: challenge ACK side-channel attack
 mitigation (CVE-2016-5696)
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 05:48:25AM +0000, mancha security wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:19:22AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > 
> > That's very kind of you, but Chas Williams already provided us with this
> > backport. I hope to be able to work on 3.10.103 this week-end.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Willy
> 
> Ah, thanks for the update.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --mancha
> 
> PS My patch is probably better :)

They're the same except that you added a macro to  define the random
function while Chas used the already provided reciprocal_divide().

Willy