linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.14 14/46] random: properly align get_random_int

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Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:33:22 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.14 14/46] random: properly align get_random_int_hash

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:14:17PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> get_random_long() was added in v4.5 and doesn't appear to have been backported
> to any stable branches, so my patch doesn't actually need to be backported to
> anything older than v4.5.  It won't break anything, though.

Ah, thanks for that, I'll go remove this from 3.14 and the 4.4 stable
kernel queues.

greg k-h