From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce upstream. On systems without sufficient boot randomness, no point spamming dmesg. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1637,8 +1637,9 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(co #ifndef CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM print_once = true; #endif - pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n", - func_name, caller, crng_init); + if (__ratelimit(&unseeded_warning)) + pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n", + func_name, caller, crng_init); } /*