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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.9.y 04/14] random: convert get_random_int/long into
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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