linux-kernel - Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs" causes crash

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2016 16:56:24 -0700
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG -next] "random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly
 userspace programs" causes crash

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:24:08AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I just realized that Linus pulled your changes. Actually I was hoping
>> we could get this fixed before the broken code would be merged.
>> Could you please make sure the bug fix gets included as soon as possible?
>
> Yes, I'll send the pull request to ASAP.

Also broke ia64.  Same fix works for me.

Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>