From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933139Ab2JAXCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 19:02:24 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:35522 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932976Ab2JAXCP (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 19:02:15 -0400 Message-Id: <20121001225205.244757693@1wt.eu> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-1 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:54:57 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tony Luck , Theodore Tso , Paul Gortmaker , Willy Tarreau Subject: [ 180/180] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver In-Reply-To: <6a854f579a99b4fe2efaca1057e8ae22@local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tony Luck commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream. Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau --- drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c index 3a2ccb0..10a4246 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include /* @@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *, dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL); + add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len); + dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len); return 0; } -- 1.7.2.1.45.g54fbc