[PATCH 4.9 020/264] random: rate limit unseeded randomness warnings

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-23T16:47:15Z

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 4e00b339e264802851aff8e73cde7d24b57b18ce upstream.

On systems without sufficient boot randomness, no point spamming dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1637,8 +1637,9 @@ static void _warn_unseeded_randomness(co
#ifndef CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM
print_once = true;
#endif
- pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n",
- func_name, caller, crng_init);
+ if (__ratelimit(&unseeded_warning))
+ pr_notice("random: %s called from %pS with crng_init=%d\n",
+ func_name, caller, crng_init);
}

/*