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=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 37EB6C3A5A3 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0282053B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730384AbfH0SAC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:00:02 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53786 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728371AbfH0SAB (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:00:01 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0C7AE60; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:59:54 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pu Wen , Thomas Gleixner , Tom Lendacky , Linux List Kernel Mailing , the arch/x86 maintainers Subject: Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for 5.3-rc5 Message-ID: <20190827175954.GI27871@zn.tnic> References: <20190825193218.GD20639@zn.tnic> <20190825194912.GF20639@zn.tnic> <20190825201723.GG20639@zn.tnic> <20190826125342.GC28610@zn.tnic> <20190827173955.GI29752@zn.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:46:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > No hurry, and I don't care deeply when this goes in. It looks safe and > harmless, so any time as far as I'm concerned - whatever is most > convenient for people. > > This is more of a "let's protect against any future issues" than > anything critical right now. Yeah. > And I suspect it just means that next time somebody screws up rdrand, > they'll screw it up to be a simple counter instead of just returning > all-ones, I'm reading this, and, for some reason, not even the slightest ounce of surprise is materializing in me. I wonder why that is... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 247165, AG München