Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2019 14:26:13 -0500 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: 4.14 "random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng" |
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 11:44:36AM +0000, Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo) wrote: >Hi stable maintainers, > >Can you consider including these "random" patches in 4.14.y? > >These are very useful in fixing esp. first-bootup delays of VMs due to >entropy starvation. > > >commit 39a8883a2b989d1d21bd8dd99f5557f0c5e89694 >Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> >Date: Tue Jul 17 18:24:27 2018 -0400 > > random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng > >commit 9b25436662d5fb4c66eb527ead53cab15f596ee0 >Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> >Date: Mon Aug 27 14:51:54 2018 -0700 > > random: make CPU trust a boot parameter
This really looks like a new feature to me. The "old" behaviour of not trusting RDRAND-like randomness was by-design rather than an oversight.
-- Thanks, Sasha
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