From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
joern@logfs.org, macro@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
dave.taht@gmail.com, blogic@openwrt.org, andrewmcgr@gmail.com,
smueller@chronox.de, geert@linux-m68k.org, tg@mirbsd.de,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 03/12] random: Allow fractional bits to be tracked
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:03:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523FBD9F.7080704@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130923040148.GG7321@thunk.org>
On 09/22/2013 09:01 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I've added the following changes to this patch since upon testing,
> there were some uses of r->entropy_count that were not properly
> converted from using fractional bits to bits.
>
Thanks for catching that.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-23 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-22 20:38 [PATCH, RFC 00/12] random driver changes Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 01/12] random: run random_int_secret_init() run after all late_initcalls Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 02/12] random: Statically compute poolbitshift, poolbytes, poolbits Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 03/12] random: Allow fractional bits to be tracked Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-23 4:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-23 4:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 04/12] random: Account for entropy loss due to overwrites Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 05/12] random: fix the tracepoint for get_random_bytes(_arch) Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 06/12] random: optimize spinlock use in add_device_randomness() Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 07/12] random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy() Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-23 10:38 ` Stephan Mueller
2013-09-23 11:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 08/12] random: mix in architectural randomness earlier in extract_buf() Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-23 4:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-23 4:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 09/12] random: optimize the entropy_store structure Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 10/12] random: cap the rate which the /dev/urandom pool gets reseeded Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 21:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22 21:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22 23:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-23 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 11/12] random: speed up the fast_mix function by a factor of four Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-22 20:38 ` [PATCH, RFC 12/12] random: adjust the generator polynomials in the mixing function slightly Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-25 10:51 ` Jörg-Volker Peetz
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