Re: [GIT PULL] random number generator fixes for 5.17-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jan 19 2022 - 03:49:43 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 6:49 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 1) Some Kconfig changes resulted in BIG_KEYS being unselectable, which Justin
> sent a patch to fix.

Ugh. I think the old "don't ask" model was the correct one, and
BIG_KEYS is probably broken (ie it should just select whatever crypto
it wants, not depend on people having selected it).

But I've taken this.

On a tangential note - looking at the resulting config file, I do note
that 'CRYPTO_LIB_POLY1305_RSIZE' should probably depend on
CRYPTO_LIB_POLY1305, because right now that sily thing gets set
whether POLY1305 is enabled or not.

That was true before too, of course - not related to this pull except
in the "this caused me to look at the end result" sense.

Linus