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From: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] random: Mix cputime from each thread that exits to the pool
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:37:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1353170249-1004-1-git-send-email-mickflemm@gmail.com> (raw)

When a thread exits mix it's cputime (userspace + kernelspace) to the entropy pool.

We don't know how "random" this is, so we use add_device_randomness that doesn't mess
with entropy count.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 125cb67..f07827a 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <trace/events/timer.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 /*
  * Called after updating RLIMIT_CPU to run cpu timer and update
@@ -494,6 +495,8 @@ static void cleanup_timers(struct list_head *head,
  */
 void posix_cpu_timers_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
+	add_device_randomness((const void*) &tsk->se.sum_exec_runtime,
+						sizeof(unsigned long long));
 	cleanup_timers(tsk->cpu_timers,
 		       tsk->utime, tsk->stime, tsk->se.sum_exec_runtime);
 
-- 
1.7.8.6


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