On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:42:27 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 01:31:45 +0200 Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This plugin mitigates the problem of the kernel having too little entropy during > > and after boot for generating crypto keys. > > > > It creates a local variable in every marked function. The value of this variable is > > modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and > > random values (gcc generates them at compile time and the stack pointer at runtime). > > It depends on the control flow (e.g., loops, conditions). > > > > Before the function returns the plugin writes this local variable > > into the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable is > > added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(). > > I don't think I'm really understanding. Won't this produce the same > value on each and every boot? No, because of interrupts and intentional data races. -- Emese -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>