From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933656Ab2GFXSL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:18:11 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:50640 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932579Ab2GFXSI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:18:08 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: +d2urEx/A68elMx+Poq+FPk6T+ijspBZD5j0RzZVd1Ja 1341616687 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:18:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jonathan Nieder Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Developers List , ewust@umich.edu, zakir@umich.edu, nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu, jhalderm@umich.edu, Linus Torvalds , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver Message-ID: <20120706231806.GA2260@kroah.com> References: <1341614704-24965-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <1341614704-24965-6-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <20120706230218.GD3728@burratino> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120706230218.GD3728@burratino> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 06:02:18PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the > > /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. > > > > Cc: Linus Torvalds > > Acked-by: Greg KH > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > Why cc: stable@? Does this fix a build error, oops, hang, data > corruption, real security issue, or other critical "oh, that's not > good" bug? > > (I can imagine some reasons but I'm asking because it's not spelled > out.) It's part of the larger series that resolves issues with the random number generator at boot time. You want these patches backported, read the original report for why. hope this helps, greg k-h