Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.17 16/43] random: use computational hash for entropy extraction

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-06T02:47:50Z

Hi Greg, Sasha,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 7:31 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree with Eric here that you might be a bit careful
> about autosel'ing 5.18, given how extensive the changes were. In
> theory they should all be properly sequenced so that nothing breaks,
> but I'd still be cautious. However, if you want, maybe we can work out
> some plan for backporting.

It's still way too early to backport these, but I'll maintain these
two branches for a little while:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random.git/log/?h=stable/linux-5.15.y
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random.git/log/?h=stable/linux-5.17.y

So that when or if it does ever make sense to do that, it's been
maintained incrementally while the knowledge is fresh. I'm omitting
from those branches new feature development, such as vmgenid.

Jason