Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 02 May 2018 01:02:34 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] vsprintf: Add use-early-random-bytes cmd line option |
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:34 PM Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> wrote:
> This option should NOT be enabled on production kernels.
I think with your fixes to get_random_bytes_arch(), it's perfectly fine to use on production kernels (and doesn't even need a kernel command line option).
It was only with the "use weak crypto" (that get_random_bytes_arch() used to fall back on) that it was a problem. That fixed "verify that get_random_bytes_arch() really uses hw crypto" is certainly not weak crypto.
Linus
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