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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-16 10:19:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-16 10:19:15 -0800
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random
Pull /dev/random changes from Ted Ts'o: "The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in the following areas: performance, avoiding waste of entropy, better tracking of entropy estimates, support for non-x86 platforms that have a register which can't be used for fine-grained timekeeping, but which might be good enough for the random driver. Also add some printk's so that we can see how quickly /dev/urandom can get initialized, and when programs try to use /dev/urandom before it is fully initialized (since this could be a security issue). This shouldn't be an issue on x86 desktop/laptops --- a test on my Lenovo T430s laptop shows that /dev/urandom is getting fully initialized approximately two seconds before the root file system is mounted read/write --- this may be an issue with ARM and MIPS embedded/mobile systems, though. These printk's will be a useful canary before potentially adding a future change to start blocking processes which try to read from /dev/urandom before it is initialized, which is something FreeBSD does already for security reasons, and which security folks have been agitating for Linux to also adopt" * tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: random: add debugging code to detect early use of get_random_bytes() random: initialize the last_time field in struct timer_rand_state random: don't zap entropy count in rand_initialize() random: printk notifications for urandom pool initialization random: make add_timer_randomness() fill the nonblocking pool first random: convert DEBUG_ENT to tracepoints random: push extra entropy to the output pools random: drop trickle mode random: adjust the generator polynomials in the mixing function slightly random: speed up the fast_mix function by a factor of four random: cap the rate which the /dev/urandom pool gets reseeded random: optimize the entropy_store structure random: optimize spinlock use in add_device_randomness() random: fix the tracepoint for get_random_bytes(_arch) random: account for entropy loss due to overwrites random: allow fractional bits to be tracked random: statically compute poolbitshift, poolbytes, poolbits random: mix in architectural randomness earlier in extract_buf()
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