linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/8] random: remove noop function call to xfer_secondary

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Message-ID: <9955153.9pz8KSq437@positron.chronox.de>
Date:   Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:41:46 +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 7/8] random: remove noop function call to xfer_secondary_pool

Since the introduction of the ChaCha20 DRNG, extract_entropy is only
invoked with the input_pool. For this entropy pool, xfer_secondary_pool
is a no-op and can therefore be safely removed.

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

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 89d67c0..7b72a01 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1417,7 +1417,6 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf,
 	}
 
 	trace_extract_entropy(r->name, nbytes, ENTROPY_BITS(r), _RET_IP_);
-	xfer_secondary_pool(r, nbytes);
 	nbytes = account(r, nbytes, min, reserved);
 
 	return _extract_entropy(r, buf, nbytes, fips_enabled);
-- 
2.9.3