4.14 "random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng"

[Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo)]

Hi stable maintainers,

Can you consider including these "random" patches in 4.14.y?

These are very useful in fixing esp. first-bootup delays of VMs due to
entropy starvation.


commit 39a8883a2b989d1d21bd8dd99f5557f0c5e89694
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jul 17 18:24:27 2018 -0400

    random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng

commit 9b25436662d5fb4c66eb527ead53cab15f596ee0
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Aug 27 14:51:54 2018 -0700

    random: make CPU trust a boot parameter


-Tommi