On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 16:54, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 04:23:03PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 13:34, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > This function is consistent with using size instead of seed->size > > > (except for one place that this patch fixes), but it reads seed->size > > > without using READ_ONCE, which means the compiler might still do > > > something unwanted. So, this commit simply adds the READ_ONCE > > > wrapper. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Thanks Jason > > > > I've queued this in efi/urgent with a fixes: tag rather than a cc: > > stable, since it only applies clean to v5.4 and later. > > Why do that? That just makes it harder for me to know to pick it up for > 5.4 and newer. > > > We'll need a > > backport to 4.14 and 4.19 as well, which has a trivial conflict > > (s/add_bootloader_randomness/add_device_randomness/) but we'll need to > > wait for this patch to hit Linus's tree first. > > Ok, if you are going to send it on to me for stable, that's fine, but > usually you can just wait for the rejection notices for older kernels > before having to worry about this. In other words, you are doing more > work than you have to here :) > So just Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> without any context is your preferred method?