linux-kernel - Re: [tip:efi/core] efi/libstub: Make efi_random

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Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:01:01 +0000
From:   Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:     "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:efi/core] efi/libstub: Make efi_random_alloc() allocate
 below 4 GB on 32-bit

On 4 December 2016 at 21:38, Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Dec, at 02:31:23PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 4 December 2016 at 14:17, Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > Ard, was this picked up for the correct tip branch? If it fixes a
>> > build failure it should have gone into tip/efi/urgent, right?
>>
>> The failure was in -next, with a patch queued up for v4.10, so that is
>> where the fix went as well.
>
> Oops, sorry I missed that. I was looking at the v4.11 queue and my
> brain suffered an off-by-one bug - I thought we'd already had the
> v4.10 release.

We haven't even had the v4.9 release :-)