linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] random: remove stale maybe_reseed_primary

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Date:   Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:39:04 +0100
From:   Stephan Müller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:     Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] random: remove stale maybe_reseed_primary_crng

>From 5e84a71d4c4b3c7f015878c0907102634603d270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@...ec.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:42:33 +0100
Subject: 

The function maybe_reseed_primary_crng is not used anywhere and thus can
be removed. Besides, it contains the check crng_init > 2 which will
never become true and thus would never trigger a reseed of the ChaCha20
primary DRNG.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
---
 drivers/char/random.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 1ef2640..8e5ab20 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -855,13 +855,6 @@ static void crng_reseed(struct crng_state *crng, struct entropy_store *r)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&primary_crng.lock, flags);
 }
 
-static inline void maybe_reseed_primary_crng(void)
-{
-	if (crng_init > 2 &&
-	    time_after(jiffies, primary_crng.init_time + CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL))
-		crng_reseed(&primary_crng, &input_pool);
-}
-
 static inline void crng_wait_ready(void)
 {
 	wait_event_interruptible(crng_init_wait, crng_ready());
-- 
2.9.3