On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:36:21AM +0200, Harald Freudenberger wrote: > The hwrng core implementation currently doesn't consider the > quality field of the struct hwrng. So the first registered rng > is the winner and further rng sources even with much better > quality are ignored. > > The behavior should be that always the best rng with the highest > quality rate should be used as current rng source. Only if the > user explicitly chooses a rng source (via writing a rng name > to /sys/class/misc/hw_random/rng_current) the decision for the > best quality should be suppressed. > > This two patches make hwrng always hold a list of registered > rng sources sorted decreasing by quality. On registration of a new > hwrng source the list is updated and if the current rng source was > not chosen by user and the new rng provides better quality set as > new current rng source. Similar on unregistration of an rng, if it > was the current used rng source the one with the next highest quality > is used. If a rng source has been set via sysfs from userland as > long as this one doesn't unregister it is kept as current rng > regardless of registration of 'better' rng sources. > > Patch 1 introduces the sorted list of registered rngs and the > always use the best quality behavior. > > Patch 2 makes hwrng remember that the user has selected an > rng via echo to /sys/class/misc/hw_random/rng_current and > adds a new sysfs attribute file 'rng_selected' to the rng core. > > Harald Freudenberger (2): > crypto: hwrng use rng source with best quality > crypto: hwrng remember rng chosen by user All patches applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
