Re: [PATCH] random: only wake up writers after zap if threshold was passed

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Thu Feb 24 2022 - 02:49:23 EST


Am Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 02:05:03PM +0100 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> The only time that we need to wake up /dev/random writers on
> RNDCLEARPOOL/RNDZAPPOOL is when we're changing from a value that is
> greater than or equal to POOL_MIN_BITS to zero, because if we're
> changing from below POOL_MIN_BITS to zero, the writers are already
> unblocked.
>
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Dominik