Theodore Ts'o 0110bbfbc8 random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' do something sane ... commit 775f4b297b upstream. We've been moving away from add_interrupt_randomness() for various reasons: it's too expensive to do on every interrupt, and flooding the CPU with interrupts could theoretically cause bogus floods of entropy from a somewhat externally controllable source. This solves both problems by limiting the actual randomness addition to just once a second or after 64 interrupts, whicever comes first. During that time, the interrupt cycle data is buffered up in a per-cpu pool. Also, we make sure the the nonblocking pool used by urandom is initialized before we start feeding the normal input pool. This assures that /dev/urandom is returning unpredictable data as soon as possible. (Based on an original patch by Linus, but significantly modified by tytso.) Tested-by: Eric Wustrow <ewust@umich.edu> Reported-by: Eric Wustrow <ewust@umich.edu> Reported-by: Nadia Heninger <nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu> Reported-by: Zakir Durumeric <zakir@umich.edu> Reported-by: J. Alex Halderman <jhalderm@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>		2012-08-15 08:10:10 -07:00
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acpi	Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux	2012-05-05 10:06:06 -07:00
asm-generic	thp: avoid atomic64_read in pmd_read_atomic for 32bit PAE	2012-07-16 09:04:42 -07:00
crypto	crypto: user - Fix lookup of algorithms with IV generator	2012-03-29 19:52:47 +08:00
drm	drm/radeon/kms: add new SI PCI ids	2012-06-10 00:36:18 +09:00
keys
linux	random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' do something sane	2012-08-15 08:10:10 -07:00
math-emu
media	Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media	2012-05-14 11:23:37 -07:00
misc
mtd
net	bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping	2012-07-16 09:03:47 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma	Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'cxgb4', 'ehca', 'iser', 'mad', 'nes', 'qib', 'srp' and 'srpt' into for-next	2012-03-19 09:50:33 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi	SCSI: libsas: fix taskfile corruption in sas_ata_qc_fill_rtf	2012-07-16 09:04:37 -07:00
sound	ALSA: hda - hide HDMI/ELD printks unless snd.debug=2	2012-04-10 14:53:55 +02:00
target	target: Add generation of LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE	2012-08-09 08:31:26 -07:00
trace	Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip	2012-04-04 10:04:42 -07:00
video	Merge branch 'platforms' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm	2012-03-27 18:17:02 -07:00
xen	xen: do not map the same GSI twice in PVHVM guests.	2012-06-01 15:18:25 +08:00
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