From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.9.y 04/14] random: convert get_random_int/long into get_random_u32/u64
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:29:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180916132947.GA6061@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535487205-26280-5-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org>
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 01:43:15AM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:
> From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
>
> commit c440408cf6901eeb2c09563397e24a9097907078 upstream.
>
> Many times, when a user wants a random number, he wants a random number
> of a guaranteed size. So, thinking of get_random_int and get_random_long
> in terms of get_random_u32 and get_random_u64 makes it much easier to
> achieve this. It also makes the code simpler.
>
> On 32-bit platforms, get_random_int and get_random_long are both aliased
> to get_random_u32. On 64-bit platforms, int->u32 and long->u64.
What bug is this fixing that it needs to be in a stable kernel tree?
The end result is the same before and after this patch, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-16 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-28 20:13 [PATCH for-4.9.y 00/14] Few upstream fixes from OnePlus6's kernel tree Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 01/14] cfq: Give a chance for arming slice idle timer in case of group_idle Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 02/14] kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 03/14] kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 04/14] random: convert get_random_int/long into get_random_u32/u64 Amit Pundir
2018-09-16 13:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 05/14] staging: rt5208: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in xd_copy_page Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 06/14] staging/rts5208: Fix read overflow in memcpy Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 07/14] IB/rxe: do not copy extra stack memory to skb Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 08/14] block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 09/14] nl80211: fix null-ptr dereference on invalid mesh configuration Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 10/14] locking/rwsem-xadd: Fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 11/14] selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 12/14] locking/osq_lock: Fix osq_lock queue corruption Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 13/14] mm, vmscan: clear PGDAT_WRITEBACK when zone is balanced Amit Pundir
2018-08-28 20:13 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 14/14] mm: remove seemingly spurious reclaimability check from laptop_mode gating Amit Pundir
2018-09-16 13:36 ` [PATCH for-4.9.y 00/14] Few upstream fixes from OnePlus6's kernel tree Greg KH
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