linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.17 37/43] random: credit cpu and bootloader seeds by default

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9ptd4eGs_=J8DYPi5Kh_MgFQeO1WoRn=kzu-=PQVdSYpg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:46:07 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.17 37/43] random: credit cpu and bootloader
 seeds by default

Hi Sasha,

Small mistake in my comment:

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sasha,
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 846bb97e131d7938847963cca00657c995b1fce1 ]
>
> Two things regarding this commit:
>
> 1) If you're going to AUTOSEL this for 5.18, 5.17, and 5.15, then you
>    also need to do the same for 5.10 also.

This is correct.

>
> 2) If you're going to pick this commit, please also pick its follow-up,
>    e052a478a7daeca67664f7addd308ff51dd40654, which likewise should apply
>    to all four versions.

This is incorrect.

Jason