Bug 481175

Summary:	need to backport several ansi_cprng patches
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	dzickus
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Description Neil Horman 2009-01-22 16:05:29 UTC

Description of problem:
need to backport commit 2566578a6feb9d9e39da41326afe8ed6022db3c5 so that we can reset DT value

need to backport commit to force panic on continuous test failure for cprng (when accepted upstream)

need to set NEED_RESET flag in alloc_cprng_context (when accepted upstream)

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Comment 1 Neil Horman 2009-01-22 21:03:36 UTC

http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=1659331
Test build with these changes

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2009-01-27 20:38:04 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2009-02-16 15:44:56 UTC

Updating PM score.

Comment 4 Don Zickus 2009-04-06 21:17:43 UTC

in kernel-2.6.18-138.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team
has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so.  However feel free
to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:00:44 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html