linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/163] 5.10.119-rc1 review

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Message-ID: <6aed0c5c-bb99-0593-1609-87371db26f44@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Fri, 27 May 2022 09:59:14 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     Chris.Paterson2@...esas.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        slade@...dewatkins.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/163] 5.10.119-rc1 review

On 5/27/22 08:53, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 04:14:21PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.119 release.
>>> There are 163 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>>> let me know.
>>
>> Is there some kind of back-story why we are doing massive changes to
>> /dev/random? 5.19-rc1 is not even out, so third of those changes did
>> not get much testing.
> 
> Did you miss the posting on the stable list that described all of this:
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/YouECCoUA6eZEwKf@zx2c4.com/
> 

That describes _what_ is done, but not _why_ the patches needed to be
backported to older kernels. Normally I would see those as enhancements,
not as bug fixes. Given that we (ChromeOS) have been hit by rng related
issues before (specifically boot stalls on some hardware), I am quite
concerned about the possible impact of this series for stable releases.

Guenter