Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] hwrng, virtio-rng: init-time fixes

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 03:42:33PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> v3:
>  - Kees Cook pointed out a weird side-effect: devices which have
>    ->init() registered get their randomness added to the system each
>    time they're switched in, but devices that don't have the init
>    callback don't contribute to system randomness more than once.  The
>    weirdness is resolved here by using the randomness each time
>    hwrng_init() is attempted, irrespective of the existence of the
>    device's ->init() callback.

All applied to crypto.  Thanks!
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