On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 02:19:12AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > As the comment said, this is indeed a "hack". Since it was introduced, > it's been a constant state machine nightmare, with lots of subtle early > boot issues and a wildly complex set of machinery to keep everything in > sync. Rather than continuing to play whack-a-mole with this approach, > this commit simply removes it entirely. This commit is preparation for > "random: use simpler fast key erasure flow on per-cpu keys" in this > series, which introduces a simpler (and faster) mechanism to accomplish > the same thing. > > Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/char/random.c | 225 ++++++++++-------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 172 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> - Eric
