[PATCH 1/2] rngd: add udev rule to source from hwrng if virtio-rng present
From: Amit Shah <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-07 13:09:53
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From: Amit Shah <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-07 13:09:53
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Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
On KVM guests where the virtio-rng device is available, and set as the current rng, this udev rule will start rngd which will feed in the host-provided entropy to /dev/random. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <redacted> --- 90-virtio-rng.rules | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 90-virtio-rng.rules
diff --git a/90-virtio-rng.rules b/90-virtio-rng.rules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07f2f9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/90-virtio-rng.rules@@ -0,0 +1 @@ +KERNEL=="hw_random", ATTR{rng_current}=="virtio*", RUN+="/sbin/rngd -r /dev/hwrng"
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