linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] /dev/random driver changes for 4.8

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:15:15 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] /dev/random driver changes for 4.8

Hi Ted,

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 02:44:24 -0400 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit 1a695a905c18548062509178b98bc91e67510864:
> 
>   Linux 4.7-rc1 (2016-05-29 09:29:24 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 86a574de4590ffe6fd3f3ca34cdcf655a78e36ec:
> 
>   random: strengthen input validation for RNDADDTOENTCNT (2016-07-03 17:09:33 -0400)

Of course none of this has been in linux-next since the random tree was
dropped in March because it had not been updated for more than a year at
that point.

However, at least half of these look like bug fixes (cced to stable).

Should I reinstate the random tree to linux-next?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell