This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
char/random: Add a newline at the end of the file
to the 4.19-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:
char-random-add-a-newline-at-the-end-of-the-file.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 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 Fri Jun 17 08:58:56 AM CEST 2022
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 19:50:23 +0200
Subject: char/random: Add a newline at the end of the file
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 3fd57e7a9e66b9a8bcbf0560ff09e84d0b8de1bd upstream.
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 10:14:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The previous state of the file didn't have that 0xa at the end, so you get that
>
>
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);
> \ No newline at end of file
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);
>
> which is "the '-' line doesn't have a newline, the '+' line does" marker.
Aaha, that makes total sense, thanks for explaining. Oh well, let's fix
it then so that people don't scratch heads like me.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
@@ -2514,4 +2514,4 @@ void add_bootloader_randomness(const voi
else
add_device_randomness(buf, size);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);
\ No newline at end of file
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/char-random-add-a-newline-at-the-end-of-the-file.patch
queue-4.19/x86-tsc-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch
queue-4.19/random-do-not-use-input-pool-from-hard-irqs.patch
queue-4.19/random-remove-unused-irq_flags-argument-from-add_interrupt_randomness.patch
