linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm 3/5] HWRNG: Add possibility to remove hwrng devices during suspend/resume

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:35:24 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...vis.unipv.it>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Subject: [PATCH -mm 3/5] HWRNG: Add possibility to remove hwrng devices during suspend/resume

From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>

Make it possible to unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator
device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c |   10 +++++-----
 include/linux/hw_random.h     |   10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1.orig/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -234,11 +234,11 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(rng_available, S_IRUG
 		   NULL);
 
 
-static void unregister_miscdev(void)
+static void unregister_miscdev(bool suspended)
 {
 	device_remove_file(rng_miscdev.this_device, &dev_attr_rng_available);
 	device_remove_file(rng_miscdev.this_device, &dev_attr_rng_current);
-	misc_deregister(&rng_miscdev);
+	__misc_deregister(&rng_miscdev, suspended);
 }
 
 static int register_miscdev(void)
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_register);
 
-void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
+void __hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng, bool suspended)
 {
 	int err;
 
@@ -332,11 +332,11 @@ void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
 		}
 	}
 	if (list_empty(&rng_list))
-		unregister_miscdev();
+		unregister_miscdev(suspended);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_unregister);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__hwrng_unregister);
 
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("H/W Random Number Generator (RNG) driver");
Index: linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/include/linux/hw_random.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1.orig/include/linux/hw_random.h
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/include/linux/hw_random.h
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@ struct hwrng {
 /** Register a new Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
 extern int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng);
 /** Unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
-extern void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng);
+extern void __hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng, bool suspended);
+static inline void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
+{
+	__hwrng_unregister(rng, false);
+}
+static inline void hwrng_unregister_suspended(struct hwrng *rng)
+{
+	__hwrng_unregister(rng, true);
+}
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_ */

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/