Re: Introduce support to lazy initialize mostly static keys v2

2013-10-05 Thread David Miller
Please in the future use "[PATCH 0/8] " as a subject prefix for postings such as this one which introduces a patch set. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kern

Introduce support to lazy initialize mostly static keys v2

2013-10-05 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
Hi! This series implements support for delaying the initialization of secret keys, e.g. used for hashing, for as long as possible. This functionality is implemented by a new macro, net_get_random_bytes. I already used it to protect the socket hashes, the syncookie secret (most important) and the