From 83664a6928a420b5ccfc0cf23ddbfe3634fea271 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:36:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] random: Use arch_get_random_seed*() at init time and once a second Use arch_get_random_seed*() in two places in the Linux random driver (drivers/char/random.c): 1. During entropy pool initialization, use RDSEED in favor of RDRAND, with a fallback to the latter. Entropy exhaustion is unlikely to happen there on physical hardware as the machine is single-threaded at that point, but could happen in a virtual machine. In that case, the fallback to RDRAND will still provide more than adequate entropy pool initialization. 2. Once a second, issue RDSEED and, if successful, feed it to the entropy pool. To ensure an extra layer of security, only credit half the entropy just in case. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- Reading git-format-patch failed