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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 11:23:33 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com>
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        Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.9 639/757] random32: make prandom_u32() output
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:54:13AM +0200, Amit Klein wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm just a security researcher, not a kernel developer...
> 
> Does that mean you don't plan to back-port the patch?

At this point in time, unless someone else does the work for me, no, I
do not, sorry.  See Willy's response for why :)

thanks,

greg k-h