From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Weedy <weedy2887@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Entropy poolsize
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:51:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100621085140.19dda646.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil7mInflmvrvVQmOx7xrNVFAY7GtqQiGobHMTT2@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:58:16 -0400 Weedy wrote:
> I know grsecurity has a option for this but I don't want to patch my
> kernel with it at this time. I have been poking around random.c but I
> can't seem to figure out where .poolsize is assigned it's value and
> how to increase it.
>
> If someone could point it out that would be nice.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> --
Do you mean this one in drivers/char/random.c or something else?
static int sysctl_poolsize = INPUT_POOL_WORDS * 32;
It's a sysctl, so it is tunable.
---
~Randy
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2010-06-21 13:58 Entropy poolsize Weedy
2010-06-21 15:51 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
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2010-06-22 23:21 ` Weedy
2010-07-04 19:00 ` Weedy
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