Hi Jason,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 7:03 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rather than rebooting into a system with no entropy, regenerate the RNG
seed before rebooting, so that the new system has a fresh seed.
Fixes: a1ee38ab1a75 ("m68k: virt: Use RNG seed from bootinfo block")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch!
I still doubt this is actually guaranteed to work, as the memory containing
the bootinfo might be overwritten during normal operation.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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