As it is when the pool is zapped with RNDCLEARPOOL writers are
not woken up and therefore the pool may remain in the empty state
indefinitely.
This patch wakes them up unless the write threshold is set to zero.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index e027e7f..32b7010 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1874,6 +1874,10 @@ static long random_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int
cmd, unsigned long arg)
return -EPERM;
input_pool.entropy_count = 0;
blocking_pool.entropy_count = 0;
+ if (random_write_wakeup_bits) {
+ wake_up_interruptible(&random_write_wait);
+ kill_fasync(&fasync, SIGIO, POLL_OUT);
+ }
return 0;
default:
return -EINVAL;
--
Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
