From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762254AbYEOQu7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 12:50:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755295AbYEOQuq (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 12:50:46 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:59638 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754007AbYEOQuq (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 12:50:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 17:39:39 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" Cc: "Chris Peterson" , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Message-ID: <20080515173939.1ec968be@core> In-Reply-To: <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52052D71BB@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20080515142154.0595e475@core> <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52052D71BB@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > In short, I agree with Alan's IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS, and know of Linux > customers who also want the same. They should be made to read the Debian ssh security report - three times and understand the same would apply to them if something did cause their network packet arrivals to be observed or non-random Far better would be to get your CPU guys to put an RNG back into the systems or on the CPU die ala VIA. Given I've even seen people using VIA boxes as a random number feeder (streaming random numbers over SSL) there is clearly a demand 8) Alan