Re: [GIT pull] x86/urgent for 5.3-rc5

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Aug 25 2019 - 15:49:20 EST


On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 12:35:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> You know what? The days of UP are long gone, and we really only want a
> one-time warning, so I think your thing is fine as-is.
>
> It would be good to test with a known-bad setup, of course..

The trivial test by not incrementing the @changed variable looks like
this: http://ix.io/1Tsr

We're really verbose, though. Dunno if we should make this a WARN_ONCE
or we say that we really should be very loud with a non-functioning
RDRAND...

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