From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com> commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream. Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include <linux/dmi.h> #include <linux/efi.h> #include <linux/bootmem.h> +#include <linux/random.h> #include <asm/dmi.h> /* @@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (* dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL); + add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len); + dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len); return 0; } -- 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/