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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Quentin Armitage <quentin@armitage.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`
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> Hi,
> 
> I've just booted Linux 4.16.4 and I am getting approximately 1900
> `random: get_random_u32 called from` messages at boot time. I can apply
> the patch to rate limit them, but thought you may be interested in the
> system I am running on, since I saw your message to Paul Menzel on lkml
> (I'm not subscribed to lkml so can't simply reply to your message).

Thanks for the report.  It's become clear to me that we need to have
the rate limiting patch  backported to stable series ASAP.  I'll
be pushing the patch to mainline shortly.

   	   					- Ted