From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: rep.dot.nop@gmail.com, f4bug@amsat.org, aurelien@aurel32.net,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu] mips/malta: pass RNG seed to to kernel via env var
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 21:32:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221001213204.3362db80@nbbrfq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YziPyCqwl5KIE2cf@zx2c4.com>
On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 21:06:48 +0200
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:05:20PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > With the kernel patch linked below, Linux ingests a RNG seed
> > passed from the hypervisor. So, pass this for the Malta platform, and
> > reinitialize it on reboot too, so that it's always fresh.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20220930140138.575751-1-Jason@zx2c4.com/
>
> The kernel side of this has now landed, so we can move ahead on the QEMU
> side:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=056a68cea01edfa78b3474af1bfa39cc6bcc7bee
>
s/a RNG/an RNG/
What about rngseed=""?
len=min(4711,0)
hex2bin(..0) will return false so ok.
rndseed="0" is problably fine, but is it worthy and desired? 00, 0x0.
Other than that, sounds plausible. IMHO.
thanks,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-01 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-30 14:05 [PATCH qemu] mips/malta: pass RNG seed to to kernel via env var Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-30 15:05 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-09-30 15:06 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-01 19:06 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-01 19:32 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer [this message]
2022-10-01 21:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-03 10:36 ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-03 18:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-03 22:36 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-10-03 22:36 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
2022-10-03 23:07 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 10:37 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 10:53 ` Peter Maydell
2022-10-04 10:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 11:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 11:03 ` Peter Maydell
2022-10-04 11:10 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 11:39 ` BALATON Zoltan
2022-10-04 12:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-04 8:05 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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