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

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• [RFC PATCH 0/2] random: tracing: Expose last boot ID on persistent instance
  2026-05-21 14:57 · 1 reply in 7d · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Recent patches

Most-recent 10 patches in this subsystem on linux-trace-kernel, ordered by date desc.

• [RFC PATCH 1/2] random: Expose boot ID to other subsystems
  2026-05-21 · "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v5 3/3] treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes long
  2025-07-16 · Bhupesh <hidden>
• [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 v2 03/17] vdso: Add __arch_get_k_vdso_rng_data()
  2024-08-22 · Christophe Leroy <hidden>
• [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• [PATCH 08/11] sysctl: Add size to register_sysctl_init
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>