Re: [PATCH] random: throttle hwrng writes if no entropy is credited

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 4:01 PM Dominik Brodowski
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> thanks for splitting this change out of my other patch. You can add my
> Signed-off-by, but I'd like to suggest rewriting the commit message as
> follows (please modify as needed):
>
>
> In case a hwrng source does not provide (trusted) entropy, it cannot
> assist in initializing the CRNG. Therefore, in case
> add_hwgenerator_randomness() is called with the entropy parameter set
> to zero, go to sleep until one reseed interval has passed.
>
> While the hwrng thread currently only runs under conditions where this
> is non-zero, this change is not harmful and prepares for future updates
> to the hwrng core.

Will do.