This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
random: initialize the non-blocking pool via add_hwgenerator_randomness()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
random-initialize-the-non-blocking-pool-via-add_hwgenerator_randomness.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3371f3da08cff4b75c1f2dce742d460539d6566d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:11:51 -0400
Subject: random: initialize the non-blocking pool via add_hwgenerator_randomness()
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 3371f3da08cff4b75c1f2dce742d460539d6566d upstream.
If we have a hardware RNG and are using the in-kernel rngd, we should
use this to initialize the non-blocking pool so that getrandom(2)
doesn't block unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1849,12 +1849,18 @@ void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const ch
{
struct entropy_store *poolp = &input_pool;
- /* Suspend writing if we're above the trickle threshold.
- * We'll be woken up again once below random_write_wakeup_thresh,
- * or when the calling thread is about to terminate.
- */
- wait_event_interruptible(random_write_wait, kthread_should_stop() ||
+ if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0))
+ poolp = &nonblocking_pool;
+ else {
+ /* Suspend writing if we're above the trickle
+ * threshold. We'll be woken up again once below
+ * random_write_wakeup_thresh, or when the calling
+ * thread is about to terminate.
+ */
+ wait_event_interruptible(random_write_wait,
+ kthread_should_stop() ||
ENTROPY_BITS(&input_pool) <= random_write_wakeup_bits);
+ }
mix_pool_bytes(poolp, buffer, count);
credit_entropy_bits(poolp, entropy);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/random-print-a-warning-for-the-first-ten-uninitialized-random-users.patch
queue-4.4/random-properly-align-get_random_int_hash.patch
queue-4.4/random-initialize-the-non-blocking-pool-via-add_hwgenerator_randomness.patch
queue-4.4/random-add-interrupt-callback-to-vmbus-irq-handler.patch
queue-4.4/jbd2-make-journal-y2038-safe.patch
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