3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Tony Luck <[email protected]> commit cbc96b7594b5691d61eba2db8b2ea723645be9ca upstream. Many platforms have per-machine instance data (serial numbers, asset tags, etc.) squirreled away in areas that are accessed during early system bringup. Mixing this data into the random pools has a very high value in providing better random data, so we should allow (and even encourage) architecture code to call add_device_randomness() from the setup_arch() paths. However, this limits our options for internal structure of the random driver since random_initialize() is not called until long after setup_arch(). Add a big fat comment to rand_initialize() spelling out this requirement. Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/random.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 9793b40..1a2dfa8 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1087,6 +1087,16 @@ static void init_std_data(struct entropy_store *r) mix_pool_bytes(r, utsname(), sizeof(*(utsname())), NULL); } +/* + * Note that setup_arch() may call add_device_randomness() + * long before we get here. This allows seeding of the pools + * with some platform dependent data very early in the boot + * process. But it limits our options here. We must use + * statically allocated structures that already have all + * initializations complete at compile time. We should also + * take care not to overwrite the precious per platform data + * we were given. + */ static int rand_initialize(void) { init_std_data(&input_pool); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
