On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 09:21:15PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote: > Please check the RFC [1]. It does use chip id. The rfc has issues and > has to be fixed but still there could be users of the API. > > 1. https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg28282.html That patch isn't safe at all. You need to store a kref to th chip in the hwrng, not parse a string. Jason