linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH] hwrng: core - Remove add_early

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Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 17:58:55 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@...labora.com>,
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	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH] hwrng: core - Remove add_early_randomness

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:53:04PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>
> Just throwing something because came to mind, not a serious suggestion.
> 
> In crypto_larval_lookup I see statements like this:
> 
> 	request_module("crypto-%s", name);
> 
> You could potentially bake up a section/table to vmlinux which would
> have entries like:
> 
> 	"module name", 1/0
> 
> '1' would mean built-in. Then for early randomness use only stuff
> that is built-in.

This early random stuff is obsolete not just because we have a
kernel thread doing the same thing, but moreover random.c itself
has been modified so that it is no longer starved of entropy on
startup.  There is no reason to feed any early randomness.

Cheers,
-- 
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