Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] random: use computational hash for entropy extraction, and related fixes

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On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> The bulk of the motivation for this and description of crypto
> vulnerabilities is in the first patch of this series. The following
> three patches then fix up entropy accounting for the new model. The last
> patch fixes a minor code safety issue.
> 
> This v3 fixes comments and commit message wording, simplifies a bit of
> code in a cmpxchg loop, and adjusts semantics around the poll write
> wakeup threshold.
> 
> Jason A. Donenfeld (5):
>   random: use computational hash for entropy extraction
>   random: simplify entropy debiting
>   random: use linear min-entropy accumulation crediting
>   random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction
>   random: make credit_entropy_bits() always safe
> 
>  drivers/char/random.c         | 501 ++++++----------------------------
>  include/trace/events/random.h |  30 +-
>  2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 444 deletions(-)

Looks good, thanks!  You can add for the series:

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Eric



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