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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/random.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index f0eea5fdc1b..fcda7d3937e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1170,8 +1170,9 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy_user(struct entropy_store *r, void __user *buf, /* * This function is the exported kernel interface. It returns some * number of good random numbers, suitable for key generation, seeding - * TCP sequence numbers, etc. It does not use the hw random number - * generator, if available; use get_random_bytes_arch() for that. + * TCP sequence numbers, etc. It does not rely on the hardware random + * number generator. For random bytes direct from the hardware RNG + * (when available), use get_random_bytes_arch(). */ void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes) { |