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Re: [PATCH 6/7] random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs

From: Jan Varho <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-21 09:56:03
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:
+static inline void maybe_reseed_primary_crng(void)
+{
+       if (crng_init > 2 &&
+           time_after(jiffies, primary_crng.init_time + CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL))
+               crng_reseed(&primary_crng, &input_pool);
+}
Hi,

Is the above function (which is now in 4.8-rc2) supposed to do
something? It seems to have no callers and the maximum value of
crng_init is 2.
--
Jan Varho
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