On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 12:53:15PM +0300, Jan Varho wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +static inline void maybe_reseed_primary_crng(void)
> > +{
> > + if (crng_init > 2 &&
> > + time_after(jiffies, primary_crng.init_time + CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL))
> > + crng_reseed(&primary_crng, &input_pool);
> > +}
>
> Is the above function (which is now in 4.8-rc2) supposed to do
> something? It seems to have no callers and the maximum value of
> crng_init is 2.
It's dead code. Its function got moved into _extra_crng(), and you're
right, these days crng_init never gets above 2. Thanks for pointing
that out. I'll take it out as a cleanup patch.
- Ted
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