Wpa_supplicant's random pool is not necessary on Android. Randomness
is already provided by the entropymixer service which ensures
sufficient entropy is maintained across reboots. Commit b410eb1913
'Initialize /dev/urandom earlier in boot' seeds /dev/urandom with
that entropy before either wpa_supplicant or hostapd are run.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
hostapd/android.config | 7 +++++++
hostapd/hostapd.android.rc | 1 -
wpa_supplicant/android.config | 8 +++++++-
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hostapd/android.config b/hostapd/android.config
index b29382892..08d21f044 100644
--- a/hostapd/android.config
+++ b/hostapd/android.config
@@ -203,3 +203,10 @@ CONFIG_WPA_CLI_EDIT=y
# Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE)
# Experimental implementation of draft-harkins-owe-07.txt
#CONFIG_OWE=y
+
+# Wpa_supplicant's random pool is not necessary on Android. Randomness is
+# already provided by the entropymixer service which ensures sufficient
+# entropy is maintained across reboots. Commit b410eb1913 'Initialize
+# /dev/urandom earlier in boot' seeds /dev/urandom with that entropy before
+# either wpa_supplicant or hostapd are run.
+CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y
diff --git a/hostapd/hostapd.android.rc b/hostapd/hostapd.android.rc
index d8e6a0698..26a87b808 100644
--- a/hostapd/hostapd.android.rc
+++ b/hostapd/hostapd.android.rc
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ on post-fs-data
mkdir /data/misc/wifi/hostapd 0770 wifi wifi
service hostapd /vendor/bin/hostapd \
- -e /data/misc/wifi/entropy.bin \
/data/misc/wifi/hostapd.conf
class main
user wifi
diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/android.config b/wpa_supplicant/android.config
index a4b17b055..7dfaa0f14 100644
--- a/wpa_supplicant/android.config
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/android.config
@@ -442,7 +442,13 @@ CONFIG_ANDROID_LOG=y
# disabled. This will save some in binary size and CPU use. However, this
# should only be considered for builds that are known to be used on devices
# that meet the requirements described above.
-#CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y
+
+# Wpa_supplicant's random pool is not necessary on Android. Randomness is
+# already provided by the entropymixer service which ensures sufficient
+# entropy is maintained across reboots. Commit b410eb1913 'Initialize
+# /dev/urandom earlier in boot' seeds /dev/urandom with that entropy before
+# either wpa_supplicant or hostapd are run.
+CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y
# IEEE 802.11n (High Throughput) support (mainly for AP mode)
CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y
--
2.15.0.531.g2ccb3012c9-goog
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