Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2014-07-18
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[RFC PATCH 2/3] virtio: rng: only accept delayed early randomness requests

From: Amit Shah <hidden>
Date: 2014-07-14 04:36:27
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: hardware random number generator core, the rest, virtio rng driver · Maintainers: Olivia Mackall, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds, Laurent Vivier

hw_random core can ask for initial randomness after a slight delay after
probe() finishes, and we can contribute to system randomness at that
point.  Tell the hw_random core by setting the HWRNG_DELAY_READ_AT_INIT
flag.

CC: Kees Cook <redacted>
CC: Jason Cooper <redacted>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <redacted>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
index d8ffebd..f53f1e8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ static int probe_common(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		.cleanup = virtio_cleanup,
 		.priv = (unsigned long)vi,
 		.name = vi->name,
+		.flags = HWRNG_DELAY_READ_AT_INIT,
 	};
 	vdev->priv = vi;
 
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