Merge tag 'random-5.19-rc2-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random
Pull random number generator fixes from Jason Donenfeld: - A fix for a 5.19 regression for a case in which early device tree initializes the RNG, which flips a static branch. On most plaforms, jump labels aren't initialized until much later, so this caused splats. On a few mailing list threads, we cooked up easy fixes for arm64, arm32, and risc-v. But then things looked slightly more involved for xtensa, powerpc, arc, and mips. And at that point, when we're patching 7 architectures in a place before the console is even available, it seems like the cost/risk just wasn't worth it. So random.c works around it now by checking the already exported `static_key_initialized` boolean, as though somebody already ran into this issue in the past. I'm not super jazzed about that; it'd be prettier to not have to complicate downstream code. But I suppose it's practical. - A few sma...
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