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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:27:46 +0200 From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: andreas.steffen@...ongswan.org, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, sandyinchina@...il.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] crypto: drbg - lower reseed threshold if seed source is degraded Am Dienstag, 9. Juni 2015, 23:26:05 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:22:32PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 9. Juni 2015, 22:25:25 schrieb Herbert Xu: > > > > Hi Herbert, > > > > > Anyway, I'm happy to apply this. However, the patch is corrupted > > > so please resend it without the white-space damage/line wrapping. > > > > As this patch would clash with the async seeding patch, shall I develop > > this patch on top of your async patch set? > > Either way is fine. I can fix it up when applying as they don't > conceptually conflict. I see one: the reset of the threshold to the "normal" value must happen at two places: the one place is in the async handler. The 2nd place is when the request to random.c returns 0 (i.e. fully initialized). The 2nd location is different between both code bases. > > Thanks, -- Ciao Stephan -- 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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