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 netdev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• [RFC PATCH V3 37/43] rv64ilp32_abi: random: Adapt fast_pool struct
  2025-03-25 · guoren@kernel.org
• [PATCH v3 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-04-23 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• [PATCH v2 18/19] virt: vmgenid: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-28 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• [PATCH 18/19] virt: vmgenid: drop owner assignment
  2024-03-27 · Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
• [PATCH 11/11] sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of handlers
  2024-03-15 · Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
• [PATCH v2 09/15] char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  2023-10-02 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 09/15] char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  2023-09-28 · Joel Granados via B4 Relay <devnull+j.granados.samsung.com@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 09/11] sysctl: Remove the end element in sysctl table arrays
  2023-06-21 · Joel Granados <hidden>
• [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 09/30] cpumask: fix incorrect cpumask scanning result checks
  2023-03-20 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
• [PATCH v2 1/4] random: fix try_to_generate_entropy() if no further cpus set
  2023-03-06 · Vernon Yang <hidden>
• [PATCH v2 1/4] random: fix try_to_generate_entropy() if no further cpus set
  2023-03-06 · Vernon Yang <hidden>
• [PATCH 1/5] random: fix try_to_generate_entropy() if no further cpus set
  2023-03-06 · Vernon Yang <hidden>
• [PATCH v1 3/5] random: add helpers for random numbers with given floor or range
  2022-10-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v6 7/7] prandom: remove unused functions
  2022-10-10 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v5 7/7] prandom: remove unused functions
  2022-10-08 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v4 6/6] prandom: remove unused functions
  2022-10-07 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v3 5/5] prandom: remove unused functions
  2022-10-06 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v3] random: use expired per-cpu timer rather than wq for mixing fast pool
  2022-09-27 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v2] random: use immediate per-cpu timer rather than workqueue for mixing fast pool
  2022-09-26 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH] random: use tasklet rather than workqueue for mixing fast pool
  2022-09-22 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• Re: 10% regression in qperf tcp latency after introducing commit "4a61bf7f9b18 random: defer fast pool mixing to worker"
  2022-09-21 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH] pm/sleep: Add PM_USERSPACE_AUTOSLEEP Kconfig
  2022-06-30 · Kalesh Singh <hidden>
• Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG_ANDROID
  2022-06-30 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• Re: [PATCH] remove CONFIG_ANDROID
  2022-06-29 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH] remove CONFIG_ANDROID
  2022-06-29 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
• [PATCH][next] treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members
  2022-06-27 · "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
• [PATCH 2/3] random: provide notifier for VM fork
  2022-03-01 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH 1/3] random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one
  2022-03-01 · "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
• [PATCH v4 4/7] Make sure task_struct is available for raw_smp_processor_id
  2021-09-08 · Keith Packard <hidden>
• [PATCH 1/2] random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable
  2020-09-01 · Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>