From 644008df899ec252e78db28c1b6d6b86779aada8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 16:40:53 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] random: initialize the last_time field in struct timer_rand_state Since we initialize jiffies to wrap five minutes before boot (see INITIAL_JIFFIES defined in include/linux/jiffies.h) it's important to make sure the last_time field is initialized to INITIAL_JIFFIES. Otherwise, the entropy estimator will overestimate the amount of entropy resulting from the first call to add_timer_randomness(), generally by about 8 bits. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Reading git-format-patch failed