On 5/28/22, Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Hi Guenter,
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 09:59:14AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
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.
The urandom try_to_generate_entropy() change from 5.18 wasn't backported.
Was it not backported on purpose or is it missing ?
On purpose, on account of the concern that you expressed. Hence I mentioned it in response to your message.
Jason