On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 11:23:48PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Allow user space to seed / reset the RNG via a setsockopt. > > This patch reuses alg_setkey to copy data into the kernel. The > alg_setkey is now used for two mechanisms: setkey and seeding. > The function is extended by the providing the function pointer > to the function handling the copied data. > > As the alg_setkey is now usable for more than just setkey, it is renamed > to alg_setop. Just call it setkey, there is no harm in treating the seed as a key is there? In fact we should have done this from the very start. crypto_rng_reset should be renamed crypto_rng_setkey. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
