From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Remove unnecessary selection of CRYPTO_RNG
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:02:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260325000227.GC3622@quark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e77dc41b88d60377b81a0cdff4e3823d8aafe98a.camel@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 07:46:10PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Sat, 2026-03-21 at 15:42 -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > encrypted-keys uses the regular Linux RNG (get_random_bytes()), not the
> > duplicative crypto_rng one. So it does not need to select CRYPTO_RNG.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
>
> > ---
> >
> > This patch is targeting the keyrings tree
>
> Not sure what you mean by targeting the keyrings tree. I can definitely queue
> it.
Last time I sent a patch for encrypted-keys, Jarkko took it. If you'd
like to take it instead, that's fine with me. As long as someone does
it. Thanks,
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-25 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-21 22:42 [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Remove unnecessary selection of CRYPTO_RNG Eric Biggers
2026-03-24 23:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2026-03-25 0:02 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-04-04 20:09 ` Eric Biggers
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