linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng

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Date:	Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:26:57 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>,
	Michal Ludvig <michal@...ix.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

On 01/04/2011 05:06 PM, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Can you please try this patch against vanilla to print out the
>> raw output of xstore?
> 
> # ps -ef | grep 'rng[d]'
> # cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_available
> via 
> # hexdump -n 16 -C /dev/hwrng
> 00000000  00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|

This thread just keeps getting more and more interesting! :)

For reference, this is what I get for b43:

hexdump -n 16 -C /dev/hwrng
00000000  c7 87 ec 43 fa ac a8 c2  3b 0d a6 8f 3e 35 54 ee  |...C....;...>5T.|

Larry

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