On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 02:54:58PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > The creation of a shadow copy is intended to only hold a short term > lock. But the drawback is that parallel users have a very similar DRBG > state which only differs by a high-resolution time stamp. > > As the locking is changed to use a long-term lock to avoid such similar > DRBG states, the entire creation and maintenance of a shadow copy can be > removed. > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch needs to come after the lock/mutex conversion. Otherwise you will break bisections. 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
