linux-kernel - Re: early x86 unseeded randomness

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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:24:49 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
Subject: Re: early x86 unseeded randomness

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 03:48:18PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Go ahead. What you actually want to do is to replace boot_cpu_has() with a
> real cpuid() check because boot_cpu_has() is not initialized on real early
> boot.

Right.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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