Until then, we need all the entropy we can get.  The "min_bytes"
logic takes care of making these reseeds catastrophic, and
reserving entropy for /dev/random isn't a priority in early boot.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <pr...@mit.edu>
---
 drivers/char/random.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index c2428ecb2..f55365696 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, 
void *buf,
 static void _xfer_secondary_pool(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes);
 static void xfer_secondary_pool(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes)
 {
-       if (r->limit == 0 && random_min_urandom_seed) {
+       if (r->limit == 0 && r->initialized && random_min_urandom_seed) {
                unsigned long now = jiffies;
 
                if (time_before(now,
-- 
1.8.3.2

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