On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 12:18:36PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 11:04:53AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > The hwrng core asks for random data in the hwrng_register() call itself > > from commit d9e7972619. This doesn't play well with virtio -- the > > DRIVER_OK bit is only set by virtio core on a successful probe, and > > we're not yet out of our probe routine when this call is made. This > > causes the host to not acknowledge any requests we put in the virtqueue, > > and the insmod or kernel boot process just waits for data to arrive from > > the host, which never happens. > > > > CC: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > CC: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # For v3.15+ > > Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 ++++++ > > drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c | 10 ++++++++++ > > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) > > Yeah, I don't think there's any viable way to get random data out of > virtio-rng at probe time... :-( > > Reviewed-by: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> OK, if there are no more objections I will take these two patches. Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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