From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C234AC2D0A3 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3C52076E for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:22:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1604917356; bh=2NBCd6A2JIzLWswGTiCjKldGV0vbypL7zXi3OCpO+yY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=OVkugT7difeQURVZnES5bnLV8QGhOe2PNKhwr8oXTMayrlLFdb+HS5BqJ6sLvS3Jh uwCMbmjBYFufZGmN/J6egOWbhvquDs9oFen/DlJY/7+csOhvHqi6b0oCNO/sXSlWwh pSUjlDSFPZedgoaxqmN1U38QWkGkta/DkyEHqNy0= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729260AbgKIKWf (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:22:35 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39398 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726176AbgKIKWe (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:22:34 -0500 Received: from localhost (83-86-74-64.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.74.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CF43F20684; Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:22:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1604917353; bh=2NBCd6A2JIzLWswGTiCjKldGV0vbypL7zXi3OCpO+yY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=deau0sRgGk7q68v7JpgeSVISW7vSHf7O51GU1dkOV6lhqfE2VuIgi+kCCCzh+BEDk Ep4/GHIi/bIkK0u10yBNZBU7jdunBBIuBaJU4oVkfaMYoRDfE1JZIx46wqr8twqqDz fFVHt/o8jul8BCOa7CJn1O2y++8k++rm6IYGjFv8= Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 11:23:33 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Amit Klein Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau , Eric Dumazet , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Andy Lutomirski , Kees Cook , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , tytso@mit.edu, Florian Westphal , Marc Plumb , George Spelvin , Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.9 639/757] random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable Message-ID: <20201109102333.GC1238638@kroah.com> References: <20201027135450.497324313@linuxfoundation.org> <20201027135520.535662993@linuxfoundation.org> <20201109062012.GA48368@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:54:13AM +0200, Amit Klein wrote: > Unfortunately, I'm just a security researcher, not a kernel developer... > > Does that mean you don't plan to back-port the patch? At this point in time, unless someone else does the work for me, no, I do not, sorry. See Willy's response for why :) thanks, greg k-h