Re: [PATCH v43 01/15] Linux Random Number Generator

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 04:45:44PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

quoted

And the main question here is, how can we get there, in any case, if
the maintainer of the random device doesn't even participate in
discussions, does not pick obvious bug fixes and is simply not engaging
at all?

What obvious bug fixes have been dropped?

The RNDRESEEDCRNG ioctl was totally broken, and I sent out a patch to fix it
which was ignored for months:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20200916041908.66649-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ (local)

Reminders didn't help:

First ping: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20201007035021.GB912@sol.localdomain/ (local)
Second ping: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20201026163343.GA858@sol.localdomain/ (local)
Third ping: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/X7gQXgoXHHEr6HXC@sol.localdomain/ (local)
Fourth ping: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/X%2FNkrKpaIBTjQzbv@sol.localdomain/ (local)
Resent to Andrew Morton: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20210112192818.69921-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ (local)
Pinged Andrew: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/YBiEJ9Md60HjAWJg@sol.localdomain/ (local)

Finally *you* took the patch: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/YBwZ1a0VIdpTDNuD@kroah.com/ (local)

Here's another random.c bug fix which was ignored, this one for 6 months before
Herbert Xu finally took it through the crypto tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20210322051347.266831-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ (local)

Here's a dead code cleanup which was ignored for 6 months before being taken by
Herbert Xu through the crypto tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20200916043652.96640-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ (local)

Here's a patch to random.c which was taken by the arm64 maintainers due to being
ignored by the random.c maintainer:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201105152944.16953-1-ardb@kernel.org/ (local)

So unfortunately, as far as I can tell, Ted is not maintaining random.c anymore.  

- Eric