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Jason A. Donenfeld 811afd06e0 random: use static branch for crng_ready()
commit f5bda35fba upstream.

Since crng_ready() is only false briefly during initialization and then
forever after becomes true, we don't need to evaluate it after, making
it a prime candidate for a static branch.

One complication, however, is that it changes state in a particular call
to credit_init_bits(), which might be made from atomic context, which
means we must kick off a workqueue to change the static key. Further
complicating things, credit_init_bits() may be called sufficiently early
on in system initialization such that system_wq is NULL.

Fortunately, there exists the nice function execute_in_process_context(),
which will immediately execute the function if !in_interrupt(), and
otherwise defer it to a workqueue. During early init, before workqueues
are available, in_interrupt() is always false, because interrupts
haven't even been enabled yet, which means the function in that case
executes immediately. Later on, after workqueues are available,
in_interrupt() might be true, but in that case, the work is queued in
system_wq and all goes well.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-30 09:33:44 +02:00
arch xtensa: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero 2022-05-30 09:33:42 +02:00
block block-map: add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern 2022-05-12 12:25:45 +02:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:50:29 +02:00
crypto random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one 2022-05-30 09:33:38 +02:00
Documentation random: fix sysctl documentation nits 2022-05-30 09:33:40 +02:00
drivers random: use static branch for crng_ready() 2022-05-30 09:33:44 +02:00
fs afs: Fix afs_getattr() to refetch file status if callback break occurred 2022-05-25 09:18:01 +02:00
include random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init() 2022-05-30 09:33:44 +02:00
init random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init() 2022-05-30 09:33:44 +02:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:19:10 +01:00
kernel timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy() 2022-05-30 09:33:41 +02:00
lib random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness 2022-05-30 09:33:44 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm: userfaultfd: fix missing cache flush in mcopy_atomic_pte() and __mcopy_atomic() 2022-05-15 20:00:09 +02:00
net secure_seq: use the 64 bits of the siphash for port offset calculation 2022-05-30 09:33:23 +02:00
samples samples/bpf, xdpsock: Fix race when running for fix duration of time 2022-04-08 14:40:21 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom 2022-04-20 09:23:26 +02:00
security lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use 2022-05-30 09:33:22 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for TongFang devices with pop noise 2022-05-25 09:17:55 +02:00
tools selftests: add ping test with ping_group_range tuned 2022-05-25 09:18:00 +02:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-02-01 17:25:48 +01:00
virt KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are freed 2022-04-08 14:40:38 +02:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.gitignore kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-05-19 10:12:59 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add two more addresses of Uwe Kleine-König 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add git tree for random.c 2022-05-30 09:33:24 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.10.118 2022-05-25 09:18:02 +02:00
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