On 07/17/2014 03:33 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:55:15PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 07/16/2014 05:03 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>>> >>> I meant that prandom isn't using rdrand for early seeding. >>> >> >> We should probably fix that. > > It wouldn't hurt to explicitly use arch_get_random_long() in prandom, > but it does use get_random_bytes() in early seed, and for CPU's with > RDRAND present, we do use it in init_std_data() in > drivers/char/random.c, so prandom is already getting initialized via > an RNG (which is effectively a DRBG even if it doesn't pass all of > NIST's rules) which is derived from RDRAND. > I assumed he was referring to before alternatives. Not sure if we use prandom before that point, though. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
