Stefan Richter wrote: > On Aug 12 Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> Send the GUIDs of newly registered controllers and devices >> to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. > > This looks good to me, almost. Isn't the call in fw_card_add redundant? > The local node's fw_device instance initializer feeds the same GUID, > although a little bit later.
Oops, indeed. Just drop that hunk: --8<---------------------------------------------------------------->8-- firewire: core: feed /dev/random with devices' GUIDs Send the GUIDs of newly registered controllers and devices to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clem...@ladisch.de> --- drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> +#include <linux/random.h> #include <linux/rwsem.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> @@ -1066,6 +1067,8 @@ static void fw_device_init(struct work_struct *work) device->config_rom_retries = 0; set_broadcast_channel(device, device->generation); + + add_device_randomness(&device->config_rom[3], 8); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/