linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver

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Message-ID: <20120706230218.GD3728@burratino>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2012 18:02:18 -0500
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ewust@...ch.edu, zakir@...ch.edu, nadiah@...ucsd.edu,
	jhalderm@...ch.edu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] usb: feed USB device information to the
 /dev/random driver

Hi,

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the
> /dev/random driver to help seed its pools.
>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Why cc: stable@?  Does this fix a build error, oops, hang, data
corruption, real security issue, or other critical "oh, that's not
good" bug?

(I can imagine some reasons but I'm asking because it's not spelled
out.)

Thanks,
Jonathan
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