Am Samstag, 18. April 2015, 18:49:43 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > 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. For the next patch installment, I would like to merge both patches as they cannot stand alone by themselves. The separation into two patches is just done to aid code review. > > 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
