linux-kernel - Re: random: Wake up writers when random pools are zapped

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Message-ID: <20180520030214.u4hkx7webjgkoy3m@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Sun, 20 May 2018 11:02:14 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: random: Wake up writers when random pools are zapped

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 05:55:19PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, how/when were you using RNDCLEARPOOL/RNDZAPENTCNT?
> Hopefully it was only testing hw_random drivers, or some such?

I wasn't actually using it myself.  Someone else filed a bug
against RHEL complaining about this and I was just clearing my
decks :)

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