From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EDCC71156 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2730920855 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726970AbgK3Q4N (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:56:13 -0500 Received: from outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu ([18.9.28.11]:45579 "EHLO outgoing.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728148AbgK3Q4N (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:56:13 -0500 Received: from callcc.thunk.org (pool-72-74-133-215.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [72.74.133.215]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.14.7/8.12.4) with ESMTP id 0AUGrdfr005363 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:53:40 -0500 Received: by callcc.thunk.org (Postfix, from userid 15806) id 6172A420136; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:53:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:53:39 -0500 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: duwe@lst.de, Linus Torvalds , Stephan =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= , Willy Tarreau , Linux Crypto Mailing List , Nicolai Stange , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Matthew Garrett , Vito Caputo , Andreas Dilger , Jan Kara , Ray Strode , William Jon McCann , zhangjs , Andy Lutomirski , Florian Weimer , Lennart Poettering , Peter Matthias , Marcelo Henrique Cerri , Neil Horman , Randy Dunlap , Julia Lawall , Dan Carpenter , And y Lavr , Eric Biggers , Ard Biesheuvel , Petr Tesarik , simo@redhat.com Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer Message-ID: <20201130165339.GE5364@mit.edu> References: <20201130151231.GA24862@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 04:15:23PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > I am willing to maintain random.c and have intentions to have a > formally verified RNG. I've mentioned this to Ted before. > > But I think Ted's reluctance to not accept the recent patches sent to > this list is mostly justified, and I have no desire to see us rush > into replacing random.c with something suboptimal or FIPSy. Being a maintainer is not about *accepting* patches, it's about *reviewing* them. I do plan to make time to catch up on reviewing patches this cycle. One thing that would help me is if folks (especially Jason, if you would) could start with a detailed review of Nicolai's patches. His incremental approach is I believe the best one from a review perspective, and certainly his cleanup patches are ones which I would expect are no-brainers. - Ted