Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:53:10 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using |
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 07:22:06PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Otherwise, we might be seeding the RNG using bad randomness, which is > dangerous. The one use of this function from within the kernel -- not > from userspace -- is being removed (keys/big_key), so that call site > isn't relevant in assessing this. > > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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