linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] virtio-rng entropy leak reporting feature

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Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:20:30 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Babis Chalios <bchalios@...zon.es>
Cc:     Olivia Mackall <olivia@...enic.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, amit@...nel.org,
        graf@...zon.de, xmarcalx@...zon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] virtio-rng entropy leak reporting feature

Hi Babis,

As I mentioned to you privately this week, I'm about to be out of town,
so I won't be able to look at this until I'm back in a few weeks. I
appreciate your patience.

But as a cursory look, I'm happy that you've written the hardware-side
code for this. That's a great starting point. The plumbing is not so
nice, though. This needs to be integrated more closely with random.c
itself, similar to how vmgenid works.

When I'm back in a few weeks, I'll see if I can either write a
description of what I have in mind, or simply integrate the useful
hardware work here into an expanded patch series.

[Please don't merge anything for now.]

Jason