On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 07:40:12AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > I am not sure that this approach is helpful, because the suggested approach > implies using a seeded DRNG and the used get_random_bytes already operates as > a (not always seeded) DRNG. If we have a blocking interface in the kernel, I > would recommend to make it identical to /dev/random. With the suggested > seeding approach for DRBG, we definitely have seed data available to start > with. Therefore, re-seeding it from another seeded DRNG (i.e. the nonblocking > pool after it is initialized) may not give us too much extra.
My main concern with your original approach was precisely the fact that get_random_bytes may be called before the before the kernel pool is ready. So Ted's solution solves that perfectly. Please do what Ted says and we can all move forward. Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/
