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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:12:27 -0700 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64 On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:39 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: > On 07/17/2014 03:33 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 09:55:15PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 07/16/2014 05:03 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>>>> >>>> I meant that prandom isn't using rdrand for early seeding. >>>> >>> >>> We should probably fix that. >> >> It wouldn't hurt to explicitly use arch_get_random_long() in prandom, >> but it does use get_random_bytes() in early seed, and for CPU's with >> RDRAND present, we do use it in init_std_data() in >> drivers/char/random.c, so prandom is already getting initialized via >> an RNG (which is effectively a DRBG even if it doesn't pass all of >> NIST's rules) which is derived from RDRAND. >> > > I assumed he was referring to before alternatives. Not sure if we use > prandom before that point, though. Unless I'm reading the code wrong, the prandom_reseed_late call can happen after userspace is running. Anyway, I'm working on a near-complete rewrite of the guest part of all of this. --Andy > > -hpa > > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- 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/
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