Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jun 2017 14:44:50 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | [GIT PULL] random bug fixes for 4.12 |
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The following changes since commit 9dfa7bba35ac08a63565d58c454dccb7e1bb0a08:
fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg() (2017-05-24 17:41:26 -0400)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus_stable
for you to fetch changes up to b169c13de473a85b3c859bb36216a4cb5f00a54a:
random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init (2017-06-07 19:45:37 -0400)
---------------------------------------------------------------- Improve performance by using a lockless update mechanism suggested by Linus, and make sure we refresh per-CPU entropy returned get_random_* as soon as the CRNG is initialized.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Jason A. Donenfeld (1): random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init
Theodore Ts'o (1): random: use lockless method of accessing and updating f->reg_idx
drivers/char/random.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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