Re: [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Remove unnecessary selection of CRYPTO_RNG

[Eric Biggers]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 05:02:27PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 07:46:10PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > On Sat, 2026-03-21 at 15:42 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > encrypted-keys uses the regular Linux RNG (get_random_bytes()), not the
> > > duplicative crypto_rng one.  So it does not need to select CRYPTO_RNG.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > This patch is targeting the keyrings tree
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean by targeting the keyrings tree. I can definitely queue
> > it.
> 
> Last time I sent a patch for encrypted-keys, Jarkko took it.  If you'd
> like to take it instead, that's fine with me.  As long as someone does
> it.  Thanks,

Anyone planning to take this?  It's not in linux-next yet.

- Eric