linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: lauraa@codeaurora.org (Laura Abbott)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] arm: Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:54:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FC17AF.1080508@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140212164907.0E958C407C9@trevor.secretlab.ca>

On 2/12/2014 8:49 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:33:24 -0800, Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> The stack canary for ARM is currently the same across reboots
>> due to lack of randomness early enough. Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS
>> to allow devices to add whatever randomness they need.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
>
> Do you have a draft patch for a user of this yet?
>

I had a particular patch in mind but I need to re-work it to work with 
the upstream tree. I wanted to at least send out the infrastructure to 
see how open people were to the idea. After reading the comments, I have 
a couple more ideas of users as well. I'll see if I can work that in for v2.

> g.
>

Thanks,
Laura


-- 
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum,
hosted by The Linux Foundation

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12  1:33 [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Add devicetree scanning for randomness Laura Abbott
     [not found] ` < 201402121251.06280.arnd@arndb.de>
2014-02-12  1:33 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/3] of: Add early randomness hooks Laura Abbott
2014-02-12 16:47   ` Grant Likely
2014-02-12  1:33 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/3] arm: Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS Laura Abbott
2014-02-12 16:49   ` Grant Likely
2014-02-13  0:54     ` Laura Abbott [this message]
2014-02-12  1:33 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/3] init: Move stack canary initialization after setup_arch Laura Abbott
2014-02-12 11:51 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Add devicetree scanning for randomness Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-12 17:45   ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-12 18:13     ` Olof Johansson
2014-02-12 18:32       ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-12 18:17     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-12 18:45       ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-12 19:12         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-12 19:43           ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-12 23:55           ` Rob Herring
2014-02-12 18:20     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2014-02-12 18:51       ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-17 15:54       ` Grant Likely
2014-02-17 16:13         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-17 18:23           ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-17 21:07             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-02-18 17:56               ` Jason Cooper
2014-02-18  9:39           ` Grant Likely
2014-02-18 18:19         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2014-02-12 21:35     ` Kees Cook
2014-02-13  0:06   ` Laura Abbott

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=52FC17AF.1080508@codeaurora.org \
    --to=lauraa@codeaurora.org \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).