Re: for stable -- random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long

2017-04-10 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 05:27:40AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Given that the below commit isn't very big and adds a nice security > property (in addition to performance), it might be worthwhile to > backport this to 4.9 stable. It's not a candidate for 4.4, since that > kernel doesn't use

Re: for stable -- random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long

2017-04-10 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 05:27:40AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Given that the below commit isn't very big and adds a nice security > property (in addition to performance), it might be worthwhile to > backport this to 4.9 stable. It's not a candidate for 4.4, since that > kernel doesn't use