[PATCH 4.9 020/264] random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce upstream.

On systems without sufficient boot randomness, no point spamming dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/char/random.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1637,8 +1637,9 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(co
 #ifndef CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
 	print_once = true;
 #endif
-	pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n",
-		  func_name, caller, crng_init);
+	if (__ratelimit(&unseeded_warning))
+		pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n",
+			  func_name, caller, crng_init);
 }
 
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