>>>> CONFIG_B43_HWRNG completely switches off hwrng support in b43.
>>>> I don't see how a change in hwrng core could still lead to a crash in
>>>> b43 with this option switched off.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "manually in the .config"?
>>>
>>> What I meant is, that I have outcommented the line 'CONFIG_B43_HWRNG=y'
>>> in .config.
>>>
>>>> Can you try to properly switch off the setting with make menuconfig and
>>>> then recompile everything from scratch (make clean)?
>>>
>>> I was intending to do that before, but I cannot find the option for
>>> that. Searching for b43_hwrng in menuconfig only shows the dependencies
>>> of that option, and the Kconfig file where it is defined, but not the
>>> path in menuconfig. Do I indirectly set CONFIG_B43_HWRNG through the
>>> parameters it depends on? I'm sorry, but this is obviously above my
>>> level of expertise ...
>>
>> Whoops, sorry. You are right. This is an automatic config option.
>> That also means your manual editing of .config would be overridden.
>>
>> You can edit drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/Kconfig
>> go to the section config B43_HWRNG
>> and change 'default y' to 'default n'
>>
>> That should disable it.
>
>
>
> Could you please also try the attached patch?
> There seems to be a problem in hwrng core in that it does not disable
> the current RNG, if the new RNG fails to initialize.
> I don't know if that's the problem here, though.
Ok. Do I apply your patch to the first version that fails for me, and
revert my change to Kconfig?
At the moment the test without B43_HWRNG compiles, I will test that later.
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c index 91bb98c42a1c..aaf9e5afaad4 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -516,11 +516,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_register);
>
> void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
> {
> + int err;
> +
> mutex_lock(&rng_mutex);
>
> list_del(&rng->list);
> - if (current_rng == rng)
> - enable_best_rng();
> + if (current_rng == rng) {
> + err = enable_best_rng();
> + if (err) {
> + drop_current_rng();
> + cur_rng_set_by_user = 0;
> + }
> + }
>
> if (list_empty(&rng_list)) {
> mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
>
>
>
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