4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -1853,12 +1853,18 @@ 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); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html