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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 2/3] m68k: virt: generate new RNG seed on reboot
Hi Jason,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 7:03 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> Rather than rebooting into a system with no entropy, regenerate the RNG
> seed before rebooting, so that the new system has a fresh seed.
>
> Fixes: a1ee38ab1a75 ("m68k: virt: Use RNG seed from bootinfo block")
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

Thanks for your patch!

I still doubt this is actually guaranteed to work, as the memory containing
the bootinfo might be overwritten during normal operation.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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