Re: [PATCH] um: random: register random as hwrng-core device

2020-11-13 Thread Anton Ivanov
On 27/10/2020 15:30, Christopher Obbard wrote: The UML random driver creates a dummy device under the guest, /dev/hw_random. When this file is read from the guest, the driver reads from the host machine's /dev/random, in-turn reading from the host kernel's entropy pool. This entropy pool could

[PATCH] um: random: register random as hwrng-core device

2020-10-27 Thread Christopher Obbard
The UML random driver creates a dummy device under the guest, /dev/hw_random. When this file is read from the guest, the driver reads from the host machine's /dev/random, in-turn reading from the host kernel's entropy pool. This entropy pool could have been filled by a hardware random number genera