Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jason A. Donenfeld" <> | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:18:25 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] m68k: virt: generate new RNG seed on reboot |
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On 9/26/22, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > 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.
Thus far, I'm unable to make it *not* work. So this seems like actually an improvement?
Jason
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