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 4.19-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:
drivers-char-random.c-constify-poolinfo_table.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: 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-4.19/drivers-char-random.c-make-primary_crng-static.patch
queue-4.19/drivers-char-random.c-remove-unused-stuct-poolinfo-poolbits.patch
queue-4.19/drivers-char-random.c-constify-poolinfo_table.patch
