Am Dienstag, 27. September 2016, 16:44:16 CEST schrieb Kalle Valo: Hi Kalle, > Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The ATH9K driver implements an RNG which is completely bypassing the > > standard Linux HW generator logic. > > > > The RNG may or may not deliver entropy. Considering the conservative > > approach in treating entropy with respect to non-auditable sources, this > > patch changes the delivered entropy value to zero. The RNG still feeds > > data into the input_pool but it is assumed to have no entropy. > > > > When the ATH9K RNG changes to use the HW RNG framework, it may re-enable > > the entropy estimation considering that a user can change that value at > > boot and runtime. > > > > Reviewed-by: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Based on the discussion I'm dropping this patch. But the discussion was > hard to follow so please let me know if I misunderstood. I guess the rejection is appropriate, but something needs to be done: add_hwgenerator_randomness should not be used in this scenario. > > Patch set to Rejected. 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
