Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2014-07-15

Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] hwrng, virtio-rng: init-time fixes

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2014-07-14 12:51:38
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:42:33PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
v3:
 - Kees Cook pointed out a weird side-effect: devices which have
   ->init() registered get their randomness added to the system each
   time they're switched in, but devices that don't have the init
   callback don't contribute to system randomness more than once.  The
   weirdness is resolved here by using the randomness each time
   hwrng_init() is attempted, irrespective of the existence of the
   device's ->init() callback.
All applied to crypto.  Thanks!
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