Thread (186 messages) 186 messages, 6 authors, 2012-08-17

[v2.6.34-stable 165/165] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver

From: Paul Gortmaker <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-15 19:55:58
Subsystem: dmi/smbios support, the rest · Maintainers: Jean Delvare, Linus Torvalds

From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

                   -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream.

Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <redacted>
---
 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index d464672..1816d92 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 #include <asm/dmi.h>
 
 /*
@@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *,
 
 	dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL);
 
+	add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len);
+
 	dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.12.rc2
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