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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:32:14 -0700
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To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf()
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On 07/25/2012 04:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 10:37 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> RDRAND is so much faster than the Linux pool system that we can
>> always just mix in architectural randomness.
> [...]
>> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>> Cc: DJ Johnston <dj.johnston@intel.com>
> [...]
> 
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for stable; see
> Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> 

The patch is intended to fix the security regression that would be
caused if Ted's random.git patches are accepted in -stable, which isn't
clear to me if they will be or not, so I added the Cc: to keep it from
getting lost.

	-hpa