linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/03]: hwrng: an in-kernel rngd

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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:43:51 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@...il.com>,
	ingo.tuchscherer@...ibm.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hans-Georg Markgraf <MGRF@...ibm.com>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/03]: hwrng: an in-kernel rngd

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 09:09:14AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I think the default should be zero, so each hwrng driver maintainer would have to consider what guarantees that particular driver can give.  If anything 50% ought to be the maximum.
>
> Repost of v4 just for patch 03/03 is on its way then, defaulting to 0
> (off), which happens to be the old behaviour, which I think I've also
> expressed my sympathy for already.
>

To be clear, I like your patches, bikeshedding aside.  Having reads of
/dev/random automatically pull in hwrng data would be *great*.  My
drbg patches are not meant to replace them at all.  I just think that
there's a need for the nonblocking pool to be well-seeded as quickly
as possible, regardless of configuration, and I don't think your code
is meant to do that.

--Andy
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