This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/char/random.c: constify poolinfo_table to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-char-random.c-constify-poolinfo_table.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 16 07:08:33 PM CEST 2022 From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:04:45 +0100 Subject: drivers/char/random.c: constify poolinfo_table From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 26e0854ab3310bbeef1ed404a2c87132fc91f8e1 upstream. Never modified, might as well be put in .rodata. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static int random_write_wakeup_bits = 28 * polynomial which improves the resulting TGFSR polynomial to be * irreducible, which we have made here. */ -static struct poolinfo { +static const struct poolinfo { int poolbitshift, poolwords, poolbytes, poolbits, poolfracbits; #define S(x) ilog2(x)+5, (x), (x)*4, (x)*32, (x) << (ENTROPY_SHIFT+5) int tap1, tap2, tap3, tap4, tap5; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/drivers-char-random.c-make-primary_crng-static.patch queue-4.14/drivers-char-random.c-remove-unused-stuct-poolinfo-poolbits.patch queue-4.14/drivers-char-random.c-constify-poolinfo_table.patch queue-4.14/drivers-char-random.c-remove-unused-dont_count_entropy.patch