linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] random fixes for 4.19-rc3

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Message-ID: <20180909122811.GA5355@thunk.org>
Date:   Sun, 9 Sep 2018 08:28:12 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypt@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] random fixes for 4.19-rc3

The following changes since commit 9a47249d444d344051c7c0e909fad0e88515a5c2:

  random: Make crng state queryable (2018-08-02 17:33:06 -0400)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/for_linus

for you to fetch changes up to 9b25436662d5fb4c66eb527ead53cab15f596ee0:

  random: make CPU trust a boot parameter (2018-09-01 12:51:54 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Fix things so the choice of whether or not to trust RDRAND to
initialize the CRNG is configurable via the boot option
random.trust_cpu={on,off}

----------------------------------------------------------------
Kees Cook (1):
      random: make CPU trust a boot parameter

 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  6 ++++++
 drivers/char/Kconfig                            |  4 ++--
 drivers/char/random.c                           | 11 ++++++++---
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)