From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>

commit b04b3156a20d395a7faa8eed98698d1e17a36000 upstream.

Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the
/dev/random driver to help seed its pools.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <g...@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/core/hub.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
@@ -1951,6 +1952,14 @@ int usb_new_device(struct usb_device *ud
        /* Tell the world! */
        announce_device(udev);
 
+       if (udev->serial)
+               add_device_randomness(udev->serial, strlen(udev->serial));
+       if (udev->product)
+               add_device_randomness(udev->product, strlen(udev->product));
+       if (udev->manufacturer)
+               add_device_randomness(udev->manufacturer,
+                                     strlen(udev->manufacturer));
+
        device_enable_async_suspend(&udev->dev);
 
        /*


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