Re: /dev/random changes for 3.13

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Thu Nov 14 2013 - 01:52:32 EST


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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 09:03:32PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The following changes since commit 6e4664525b1db28f8c4e1130957f70a94c19213e:
>
> Linux 3.11 (2013-09-02 13:46:10 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 392a546dc8368d1745f9891ef3f8f7c380de8650:
>
> random: add debugging code to detect early use of get_random_bytes() (2013-11-03 18:24:08 -0500)

There will be a merge conflict thanks to changes from the net tree.
Here is the proposed resolution:

commit 6b284fe1892e320a76145bdc421fc7222169c98b
Merge: 392a546 2821fe6
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 13 20:27:49 2013 -0500

Merge /usr/projects/linux/base into merge-resolve

Conflicts:
drivers/char/random.c

diff --cc drivers/char/random.c
index cdf4cfb,4fe5609..aa051ef
- --- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@@ -654,14 -601,12 +654,16 @@@ retry
if (cmpxchg(&r->entropy_count, orig, entropy_count) != orig)
goto retry;

- - r->entropy_total += nbits;
if (!r->initialized && nbits > 0) {
+ r->entropy_total += nbits;
if (r->entropy_total > 128) {
- - if (r == &nonblocking_pool)
- - pr_notice("random: %s pool is initialized\n",
- - r->name);
r->initialized = 1;
- if (r == &nonblocking_pool)
+ r->entropy_total = 0;
++ if (r == &nonblocking_pool) {
+ prandom_reseed_late();
++ pr_notice("random: %s pool is initialized\n",
++ r->name);
++ }
}
}


I've pushed this merge resolution here:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git/log/?h=trial_merge

git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git trial_merge

% git show-ref trial_merge
c0caa5d6dd21f115005a73311960d60172028047 refs/heads/trial_merge

Cheers,

- Ted
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