From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laura Abbott Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] arm: Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:54:07 -0800 Message-ID: <52FC17AF.1080508@codeaurora.org> References: <1392168805-14200-1-git-send-email-lauraa@codeaurora.org> < 1392168805-14200-3-git-send-email-lauraa@codeaurora.org> <20140212164907.0E958C407C9@trevor.secretlab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140212164907.0E958C407C9-WNowdnHR2B42iJbIjFUEsiwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Kumar Gala , Kees Cook List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 2/12/2014 8:49 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:33:24 -0800, Laura Abbott 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 > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html