random number driver · Maintained

Maintainers

• M "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
• M Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/microsoft,vmgenid.yaml
• F drivers/char/random.c
• F include/linux/random.h
• F include/uapi/linux/random.h
• F drivers/virt/vmgenid.c

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-crypto (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• [PATCH RFC] hwrng: core - Set hwrng_fillfn() kernel thread freezable
  2026-04-27 · "Thomas Richard (TI)" <thomas.richard@bootlin.com>
• [PATCH 26/27] random: factor out a __limit_random_u32_below helper
  2026-03-11 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH] random: remove unused get_random_var_wait functions
  2025-11-02 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 02/10] lib/crypto: blake2s: Rename blake2s_state to blake2s_ctx
  2025-10-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 01/10] lib/crypto: blake2s: Adjust parameter order of blake2s()
  2025-10-18 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] drivers/char/random.c: Clean up style issues
  2025-08-20 · Osama Abdelkader <hidden>
• [PATCH v6.12 1/2] random: Add hook to override device reads and getrandom(2)
  2025-06-30 · Jay Wang <hidden>
• [PATCH 3/4] crypto: lib/chacha - add strongly-typed state zeroization
  2025-05-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 1/4] crypto: lib/chacha - strongly type the ChaCha state
  2025-05-05 · Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
• [RFC PATCH V3 37/43] rv64ilp32_abi: random: Adapt fast_pool struct
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• [PATCH v2] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-10 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• [PATCH] treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable
  2025-01-09 · Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v3 18/19] random: Do not include <linux/prandom.h> in <linux/random.h>
  2024-09-30 · Uros Bizjak <hidden>
• [PATCH RESEND v2 18/19] random: Do not include <linux/prandom.h> in <linux/random.h>
  2024-09-09 · Uros Bizjak <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 18/19] random: Do not include <linux/prandom.h> in <linux/random.h>
  2024-09-09 · Uros Bizjak <hidden>
• [PATCH v23 2/4] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-07-12 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v22 2/4] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-07-09 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v21 2/4] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-07-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v20 4/5] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-07-03 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v20 2/5] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
  2024-07-03 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v19 4/5] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-07-01 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v19 2/5] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
  2024-07-01 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v18 4/5] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-06-20 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v18 2/5] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
  2024-06-20 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v17 4/5] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-06-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v17 2/5] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
  2024-06-14 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v16 4/5] random: introduce generic vDSO getrandom() implementation
  2024-05-28 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v16 2/5] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
  2024-05-28 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH] random: add chacha8_block and swtich the rng to it
  2024-04-29 · Aaron Toponce <hidden>
• [PATCH v6 5/5] virt: vmgenid: add support for devicetree bindings
  2024-04-17 · Babis Chalios <hidden>