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Linus Torvalds a26fb01c28 In reaction to the fixes to address CVE-2018-1108, some Linux
distributions that have certain systemd versions in some cases
 combined with patches to libcrypt for FIPS/FEDRAMP compliance, have
 led to boot-time stalls for some hardware.  The reaction by some
 distros and Linux sysadmins has been to install packages that try to
 do complicated things with the CPU and hope that leads to randomness.
 To mitigate this, if RDRAND is available, mix it into entropy provided
 by userspace.  It won't hurt. and it will probably help.
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull random fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "In reaction to the fixes to address CVE-2018-1108, some Linux
  distributions that have certain systemd versions in some cases
  combined with patches to libcrypt for FIPS/FEDRAMP compliance, have
  led to boot-time stalls for some hardware.

  The reaction by some distros and Linux sysadmins has been to install
  packages that try to do complicated things with the CPU and hope that
  leads to randomness.

  To mitigate this, if RDRAND is available, mix it into entropy provided
  by userspace. It won't hurt, and it will probably help"

* tag 'random_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: mix rdrand with entropy sent in from userspace
2018-07-28 19:40:06 -07:00
arch One more fix for 4.18: 2018-07-28 12:32:28 -07:00
block for-linus-20180727 2018-07-27 12:51:00 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-07-19 07:32:44 -07:00
Documentation USB fixes for 4.18-rc7 2018-07-26 09:29:29 -07:00
drivers In reaction to the fixes to address CVE-2018-1108, some Linux 2018-07-28 19:40:06 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs for-linus-20180727 2018-07-27 12:51:00 -07:00
include for-linus-20180727 2018-07-27 12:51:00 -07:00
init Kbuild fixes for v4.18 2018-06-30 13:05:30 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: prevent queue.status tearing in semop 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-07-27 10:30:47 -07:00
lib kasan: only select SLUB_DEBUG with SYSFS=y 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm zswap: re-check zswap_is_full() after do zswap_shrink() 2018-07-26 19:38:03 -07:00
net ip: in cmsg IP(V6)_ORIGDSTADDR call pskb_may_pull 2018-07-24 16:35:58 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-18 19:32:54 -07:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-07-18 19:32:54 -07:00
security selinux/stable-4.18 PR 20180629 2018-06-30 11:15:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Yet another Clevo P950 quirk entry 2018-07-18 12:17:46 +02:00
tools Various fixes to the tracing infrastructure: 2018-07-27 09:50:33 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt Miscellaneous bugfixes, plus a small patchlet related to Spectre v2. 2018-07-18 11:08:44 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'asoc-4.17' into asoc-4.18 for compress dependencies 2018-04-26 12:24:28 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-07-27 09:53:45 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc6 2018-07-22 14:12:20 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.