Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver

Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-06T23:02:25Z

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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> 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.)

Thanks,
Jonathan