Re: [PATCH] Revert "hwrng: core - zeroize buffers with random data"

[Linus Torvalds]

Stephan, Herbert? The zeroes in /dev/hwrng output are obviously
complete crap, so there's something badly wrong somewhere.

The locking, for example, is completely buggered. There's even a
comment about it, but that comment makes the correct observation of
"but y'know: randomness". But the memset() also being outside the lock
makes a complete joke of the whole thing.

Is the hwrng thing even worth maintaining? Compared to something like
/dev/urandom, it clearly does not do a very good job.

So I'm inclined to take the revert, but I'm also somewhat inclined to
simply mark this crud broken when we have other things that clearly do
a lot better.

              Linus

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:23 PM, David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This reverts commit 2cc751545854d7bd7eedf4d7e377bb52e176cd07.