Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 22:27:30 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > 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. Ok, that means I will drop this patch entirely and wire up the reseeding function in algif_rng.c with setkey. > > Cheers, -- Ciao Stephan -- 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
