From: Tony Luck <[email protected]> ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. -------------------
commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream. Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> --- drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c index d464672..1816d92 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/dmi.h> #include <linux/efi.h> #include <linux/bootmem.h> +#include <linux/random.h> #include <asm/dmi.h> /* @@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *, dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL); + add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len); + dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len); return 0; } -- 1.7.12.rc2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
