Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] m68k: virt: generate new RNG seed on reboot

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On 9/26/22, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Thus far, I'm unable to make it *not* work. So this seems like
actually an improvement?

Jason



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