From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add a way to get some random bits into the entropy pools early on
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:09:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125170923.40881182.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081125132600.5112fb24@infradead.org>
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:26:00 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> currently the entropy pool gets seeded on the module_init() level, but there
> is at least one consumer of random bits (the oops ID that is printed as part
> of the oops).
There seems to be some missing text here.
> As a result of this, kerneloops.org is seeing a lot of oopses that all share
> the same 'random' number; which used to get filed away as "duplicate".
>
> This patch adds a function to the random driver so that various pieces of
> the kernel can add random bits (but not entropy!) to the pool, to avoid
> this dupicate ID problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-26 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 21:26 [PATCH] random: add a way to get some random bits into the entropy pools early on Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-25 21:41 ` Matt Mackall
2008-11-26 6:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-26 1:09 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-26 2:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-26 14:02 ` Andi Kleen
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