Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2013 19:31:28 -0500 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/9] random: tighten bound on random_read_wakeup_thresh |
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:08:35AM -0500, Greg Price wrote: > We use this value in a few places other than its literal meaning, > in particular in _xfer_secondary_pool() as a minimum number of > bits to pull from the input pool at a time into either output > pool. It doesn't make sense to pull more bits than the whole size > of an output pool. > > We could and possibly should separate the quantities "how much > should the input pool have to have to wake up /dev/random readers" > and "how much should we transfer from the input to an output pool > at a time", but nobody is likely to be sad they can't set the first > quantity to more than 1024 bits, so for now just limit them both. > > Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> > Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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