| c2bc3a316a7281f67e36b34dac2802cbe36a9128 |
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17-Jan-2012 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge branch 'x86/rdrand' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86/rdrand' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
random: Adjust the number of loops when initializing
random: Use arch-specific RNG to initialize the entropy store
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| 2dac8e54f988ab58525505d7ef982493374433c3 |
|
16-Jan-2012 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> |
random: Adjust the number of loops when initializing
When we are initializing using arch_get_random_long() we only need to
loop enough times to touch all the bytes in the buffer; using
poolwords for that does twice the number of operations necessary on a
64-bit machine, since in the random number generator code "word" means
32 bits.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324589281-31931-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 3e88bdff1c65145f7ba297ccec69c774afe4c785 |
|
22-Dec-2011 |
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> |
random: Use arch-specific RNG to initialize the entropy store
If there is an architecture-specific random number generator (such as
RDRAND for Intel architectures), use it to initialize /dev/random's
entropy stores. Even in the worst case, if RDRAND is something like
AES(NSA_KEY, counter++), it won't hurt, and it will definitely help
against any other adversaries.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324589281-31931-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 90ab5ee94171b3e28de6bb42ee30b527014e0be7 |
|
13-Jan-2012 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc)
module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In
fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy
trick.
It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version
it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version.
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| cf833d0b9937874b50ef2867c4e8badfd64948ce |
|
22-Dec-2011 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
random: Use arch_get_random_int instead of cycle counter if avail
We still don't use rdrand in /dev/random, which just seems stupid. We
accept the *cycle*counter* as a random input, but we don't accept
rdrand? That's just broken.
Sure, people can do things in user space (write to /dev/random, use
rdrand in addition to /dev/random themselves etc etc), but that
*still* seems to be a particularly stupid reason for saying "we
shouldn't bother to try to do better in /dev/random".
And even if somebody really doesn't trust rdrand as a source of random
bytes, it seems singularly stupid to trust the cycle counter *more*.
So I'd suggest the attached patch. I'm not going to even bother
arguing that we should add more bits to the entropy estimate, because
that's not the point - I don't care if /dev/random fills up slowly or
not, I think it's just stupid to not use the bits we can get from
rdrand and mix them into the strong randomness pool.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B55aFwn59N1=m651QAyTy-1gO1noGbK18zwKDwvwqnravA84A@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| bd29e568a4cb6465f6e5ec7c1c1f3ae7d99cbec1 |
|
16-Nov-2011 |
Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> |
fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes()
If there is an architecture-specific random number generator we use it
to acquire randomness one "long" at a time. We should put these random
words into consecutive words in the result buffer - not just overwrite
the first word again and again.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 8e6d539e0fd0c2124a20a207da70f2af7a9ae52c |
|
28-Oct-2011 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge branch 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
x86, random: Architectural inlines to get random integers with RDRAND
random: Add support for architectural random hooks
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/char/random.c: the architectural
random hooks touched "get_random_int()" that was simplified to use MD5
and not do the keyptr thing any more (see commit 6e5714eaf77d: "net:
Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5").
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| 6e5714eaf77d79ae1c8b47e3e040ff5411b717ec |
|
04-Aug-2011 |
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.
Computers have become a lot faster since we compromised on the
partial MD4 hash which we use currently for performance reasons.
MD5 is a much safer choice, and is inline with both RFC1948 and
other ISS generators (OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.)
Furthermore, only having 24-bits of the sequence number be truly
unpredictable is a very serious limitation. So the periodic
regeneration and 8-bit counter have been removed. We compute and
use a full 32-bit sequence number.
For ipv6, DCCP was found to use a 32-bit truncated initial sequence
number (it needs 43-bits) and that is fixed here as well.
Reported-by: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 63d77173266c1791f1553e9e8ccea65dc87c4485 |
|
31-Jul-2011 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
random: Add support for architectural random hooks
Add support for architecture-specific hooks into the kernel-directed
random number generator interfaces. This patchset does not use the
architecture random number generator interfaces for the
userspace-directed interfaces (/dev/random and /dev/urandom), thus
eliminating the need to distinguish between them based on a pool
pointer.
Changes in version 3:
- Moved the hooks from extract_entropy() to get_random_bytes().
- Changes the hooks to inlines.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 87c48fa3b4630905f98268dde838ee43626a060c |
|
22-Jul-2011 |
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> |
ipv6: make fragment identifications less predictable
IPv6 fragment identification generation is way beyond what we use for
IPv4 : It uses a single generator. Its not scalable and allows DOS
attacks.
Now inetpeer is IPv6 aware, we can use it to provide a more secure and
scalable frag ident generator (per destination, instead of system wide)
This patch :
1) defines a new secure_ipv6_id() helper
2) extends inet_getid() to provide 32bit results
3) extends ipv6_select_ident() with a new dest parameter
Reported-by: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 25985edcedea6396277003854657b5f3cb31a628 |
|
31-Mar-2011 |
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> |
Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 442a4fffffa26fc3080350b4d50172f7589c3ac2 |
|
21-Feb-2011 |
Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> |
random: update interface comments to reflect reality
At present, the comment header in random.c makes no mention of
add_disk_randomness, and instead, suggests that disk activity adds to the
random pool by way of add_interrupt_randomness, which appears to not have
been the case since sometime prior to the existence of git, and even prior
to bitkeeper. Didn't look any further back. At least, as far as I can
tell, there are no storage drivers setting IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM, which is a
requirement for add_interrupt_randomness to trigger, so the only way for a
disk to contribute entropy is by way of add_disk_randomness. Update
comments accordingly, complete with special mention about solid state
drives being a crappy source of entropy (see e2e1a148bc for reference).
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| b29c617af3b09d150d3889836c24d39564b39180 |
|
06-Dec-2010 |
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> |
random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
__this_cpu_inc can create a single instruction to do the same as
__get_cpu_var()++.
Cc: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 6038f373a3dc1f1c26496e60b6c40b164716f07e |
|
15-Aug-2010 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.
The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.
The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.
===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};
@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};
@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};
@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};
@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};
// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};
@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};
// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};
// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};
// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};
@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};
// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 4015d9a865e3bcc42d88bedc8ce1551000bab664 |
|
31-Jul-2010 |
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> |
random: Reorder struct entropy_store to remove padding on 64bits
Re-order structure entropy_store to remove 8 bytes of padding on
64 bit builds, so shrinking this structure from 72 to 64 bytes
and allowing it to fit into one cache line.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| e954bc91bdd4bb08b8325478c5004b24a23a3522 |
|
20-May-2010 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: simplify fips mode
Rather than dynamically allocate 10 bytes, move it to static allocation.
This saves space and avoids the need for error checking.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| c41b20e721ea4f6f20f66a66e7f0c3c97a2ca9c2 |
|
11-Dec-2009 |
Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> |
Fix misspellings of "truly" in comments.
Some comments misspell "truly"; this fixes them. No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| cd1510cb5f892907fe1a662f90b41fb3a42954e0 |
|
01-Feb-2010 |
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> |
random: Remove unused inode variable
The previous changeset left behind an unused inode variable.
This patch removes it.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| a996996dd75a9086b12d1cb4010f26e1748993f0 |
|
29-Jan-2010 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: drop weird m_time/a_time manipulation
No other driver does anything remotely like this that I know of except
for the tty drivers, and I can't see any reason for random/urandom to do
it. In fact, it's a (trivial, harmless) timing information leak. And
obviously, it generates power- and flash-cycle wasting I/O, especially
if combined with something like hwrngd. Also, it breaks ubifs's
expectations.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 35900771c06cee858b725ef7069fb6934691b319 |
|
15-Dec-2009 |
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> |
random.c: use %pU to print UUIDs
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 6d4561110a3e9fa742aeec6717248a491dfb1878 |
|
16-Nov-2009 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 894d2491153a9f8270dbed21175d06fde4eba6c7 |
|
05-Nov-2009 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
Now that sys_sysctl is a wrapper around /proc/sys all of
the binary sysctl support elsewhere in the tree is
dead code.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> for drivers/char/hpet.c
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 8d65af789f3e2cf4cfbdbf71a0f7a61ebcd41d38 |
|
24-Sep-2009 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.
It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.
It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 5b739ef8a4e8cf5201d21abff897e292c232477b |
|
18-Jun-2009 |
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> |
random: Add optional continuous repetition test to entropy store based rngs
FIPS-140 requires that all random number generators implement continuous self
tests in which each extracted block of data is compared against the last block
for repetition. The ansi_cprng implements such a test, but it would be nice if
the hw rng's did the same thing. Obviously its not something thats always
needed, but it seems like it would be a nice feature to have on occasion. I've
written the below patch which allows individual entropy stores to be flagged as
desiring a continuous test to be run on them as is extracted. By default this
option is off, but is enabled in the event that fips mode is selected during
bootup.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 26a9a418237c0b06528941bca693c49c8d97edbe |
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19-May-2009 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Avoid ICE in get_random_int() with gcc-3.4.5
Martin Knoblauch reports that trying to build 2.6.30-rc6-git3 with
RHEL4.3 userspace (gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)) causes an
internal compiler error (ICE):
drivers/char/random.c: In function `get_random_int':
drivers/char/random.c:1672: error: unrecognizable insn:
(insn 202 148 150 0 /scratch/build/linux-2.6.30-rc6-git3/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h:23 (set (reg:SI 0 ax [91])
(subreg:SI (plus:DI (plus:DI (reg:DI 0 ax [88])
(subreg:DI (reg:SI 6 bp) 0))
(const_int -4 [0xfffffffffffffffc])) 0)) -1 (nil)
(nil))
drivers/char/random.c:1672: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2083
and after some debugging it turns out that it's due to the code trying
to figure out the rough value of the current stack pointer by taking an
address of an uninitialized variable and casting that to an integer.
This is clearly a compiler bug, but it's not worth fighting - while the
current stack kernel pointer might be somewhat hard to predict in user
space, it's also not generally going to change for a lot of the call
chains for a particular process.
So just drop it, and mumble some incoherent curses at the compiler.
Tested-by: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@knobisoft.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 8a0a9bd4db63bc45e3017bedeafbd88d0eb84d02 |
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05-May-2009 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
random: make get_random_int() more random
It's a really simple patch that basically just open-codes the current
"secure_ip_id()" call, but when open-coding it we now use a _static_
hashing area, so that it gets updated every time.
And to make sure somebody can't just start from the same original seed of
all-zeroes, and then do the "half_md4_transform()" over and over until
they get the same sequence as the kernel has, each iteration also mixes in
the same old "current->pid + jiffies" we used - so we should now have a
regular strong pseudo-number generator, but we also have one that doesn't
have a single seed.
Note: the "pid + jiffies" is just meant to be a tiny tiny bit of noise. It
has no real meaning. It could be anything. I just picked the previous
seed, it's just that now we keep the state in between calls and that will
feed into the next result, and that should make all the difference.
I made that hash be a per-cpu data just to avoid cache-line ping-pong:
having multiple CPU's write to the same data would be fine for randomness,
and add yet another layer of chaos to it, but since get_random_int() is
supposed to be a fast interface I did it that way instead. I considered
using "__raw_get_cpu_var()" to avoid any preemption overhead while still
getting the hash be _mostly_ ping-pong free, but in the end good taste won
out.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 417b43d4b728619e9bcc2da4fa246a6350d46667 |
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03-Apr-2009 |
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> |
random: align rekey_work's timer
Align rekey_work. Even though it's infrequent, we may as well line it up.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| d178a1eb5c034df1f74a2b67bf311afa5d6b8e95 |
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11-Jan-2009 |
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> |
sparseirq: fix build with unknown irq_desc struct
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> tip/kernel/fork.c: In function 'copy_signal':
> tip/kernel/fork.c:825: warning: unused variable 'ret'
> tip/drivers/char/random.c: In function 'get_timer_rand_state':
> tip/drivers/char/random.c:584: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> tip/drivers/char/random.c: In function 'set_timer_rand_state':
> tip/drivers/char/random.c:594: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> make[3]: *** [drivers/char/random.o] Error 1
irq_desc is defined in linux/irq.h, so include it in the genirq case.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| d7e51e66899f95dabc89b4d4c6674a6e50fa37fc |
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08-Jan-2009 |
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> |
sparseirq: make some func to be used with genirq
Impact: clean up sparseirq fallout on random.c
Ingo suggested to change some ifdef from SPARSE_IRQ to GENERIC_HARDIRQS
so we could some #ifdef later if all arch support genirq
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| cda796a3d572059d64f5429dfc1d00ca6fcbaf8d |
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06-Jan-2009 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: don't try to look at entropy_count outside the lock
As a non-atomic value, it's only safe to look at entropy_count when the
pool lock is held, so we move the BUG_ON inside the lock for correctness.
Also remove the spurious comment. It's ok for entropy_count to
temporarily exceed POOLBITS so long as it's left in a consistent state
when the lock is released.
This is a more correct, simple, and idiomatic fix for the bug in
8b76f46a2db. I've left the reorderings introduced by that patch in place
as they're harmless, even though they don't properly deal with potential
atomicity issues.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 2f983570010a0dcb26d988da02d7ccfad00c807c |
|
03-Jan-2009 |
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> |
sparseirq: move set/get_timer_rand_state back to .c
those two functions only used in that C file
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 0b8f1efad30bd58f89961b82dfe68b9edf8fd2ac |
|
06-Dec-2008 |
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> |
sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
Impact: new feature
Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.
To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.
When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).
This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 233e70f4228e78eb2f80dc6650f65d3ae3dbf17c |
|
01-Nov-2008 |
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> |
saner FASYNC handling on file close
As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync()
need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that
creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget.
So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in
file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set. And lose that
crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we
don't have to bother anymore.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 9301975ec251bab1ad7cfcb84a688b26187e4e4a |
|
20-Oct-2008 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge branch 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu
and x86/uv.
The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are
actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added
while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to
irq_desc[]). The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively
small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target.
* 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits)
genirq: improve include files
intr_remapping: fix typo
io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too
genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/*
genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c
genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops
proc: fixup irq iterator
genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc
x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c
x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers
x86: cleanup show_interrupts
genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications
genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal
genirq: revert dynarray
genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc
genirq: remove sparse irq code
genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc
genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc()
x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
...
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| f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126 |
|
16-Oct-2008 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| d6c88a507ef0b6afdb013cba4e7804ba7324d99a |
|
15-Oct-2008 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
genirq: revert dynarray
Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 2cc21ef843d4fb7da122239b644a1f6f0aca60a6 |
|
15-Oct-2008 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
genirq: remove sparse irq code
This code is not ready, but we need to rip it out instead of rebasing
as we would lose the APIC/IO_APIC unification otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 3060d6fe28570640c2d7d66d38b9eaa848c3b9e3 |
|
20-Aug-2008 |
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> |
x86: put timer_rand_state pointer into irq_desc
irq_timer_state[] is a NR_IRQS sized array that is a side-by array to
the real irq_desc[] array.
Integrate that field into the (now dynamic) irq_desc dynamic array and
save some RAM.
v2: keep the old way to support arch not support irq_desc
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| eef1de76da54a2ab6c6659c9a3722fd54a0e3459 |
|
20-Aug-2008 |
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> |
irqs: make irq_timer_state to use dyn_array
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 1f45f5621df82033cb4964d03530ade2f9a25e7b |
|
20-Aug-2008 |
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> |
drivers/char: use nr_irqs
convert them to nr_irqs.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| f331c0296f2a9fee0d396a70598b954062603015 |
|
03-Sep-2008 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
block: don't depend on consecutive minor space
* Implement disk_devt() and part_devt() and use them to directly
access devt instead of computing it from ->major and ->first_minor.
Note that all references to ->major and ->first_minor outside of
block layer is used to determine devt of the disk (the part0) and as
->major and ->first_minor will continue to represent devt for the
disk, converting these users aren't strictly necessary. However,
convert them for consistency.
* Implement disk_max_parts() to avoid directly deferencing
genhd->minors.
* Update bdget_disk() such that it doesn't assume consecutive minor
space.
* Move devt computation from register_disk() to add_disk() and make it
the only one (all other usages use the initially determined value).
These changes clean up the code and will help disk->part dereference
fix and extended block device numbers.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 8b76f46a2db29407fed66cf4aca19d61b3dcb3e1 |
|
02-Sep-2008 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
drivers/char/random.c: fix a race which can lead to a bogus BUG()
Fix a bug reported by and diagnosed by Aaron Straus.
This is a regression intruduced into 2.6.26 by
commit adc782dae6c4c0f6fb679a48a544cfbcd79ae3dc
Author: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Date: Tue Apr 29 01:03:07 2008 -0700
random: simplify and rename credit_entropy_store
credit_entropy_bits() does:
spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
...
if (r->entropy_count > r->poolinfo->POOLBITS)
r->entropy_count = r->poolinfo->POOLBITS;
so there is a time window in which this BUG_ON():
static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min,
int reserved)
{
unsigned long flags;
BUG_ON(r->entropy_count > r->poolinfo->POOLBITS);
/* Hold lock while accounting */
spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
can trigger.
We could fix this by moving the assertion inside the lock, but it seems
safer and saner to revert to the old behaviour wherein
entropy_store.entropy_count at no time exceeds
entropy_store.poolinfo->POOLBITS.
Reported-by: Aaron Straus <aaron@merfinllc.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 9f593653742d1dd816c4e94c6e5154a57ccba6d1 |
|
19-Aug-2008 |
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> |
nf_nat: use secure_ipv4_port_ephemeral() for NAT port randomization
Use incoming network tuple as seed for NAT port randomization.
This avoids concerns of leaking net_random() bits, and also gives better
port distribution. Don't have NAT server, compile tested only.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
[ added missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ]
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 27ac792ca0b0a1e7e65f20342260650516c95864 |
|
24-Jul-2008 |
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> |
PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures
On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:
u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.
Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.
See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 9a6f70bbed4e8b72dd340812d7c606bfd5e00b47 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> |
random: add async notification support to /dev/random
Add async notification support to /dev/random.
A little test case is below. Without this patch, you get:
$ ./async-random
Drained the pool
Found more randomness
With it, you get:
$ ./async-random
Drained the pool
SIGIO
Found more randomness
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
static void handler(int sig)
{
printf("SIGIO\n");
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd, n, err, flags;
if(signal(SIGIO, handler) < 0){
perror("setting SIGIO handler");
exit(1);
}
fd = open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY);
if(fd < 0){
perror("open");
exit(1);
}
flags = fcntl(fd, F_GETFL);
if (flags < 0){
perror("getting flags");
exit(1);
}
flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, flags) < 0){
perror("setting flags");
exit(1);
}
while((err = read(fd, &n, sizeof(n))) > 0) ;
if(err == 0){
printf("random returned 0\n");
exit(1);
}
else if(errno != EAGAIN){
perror("read");
exit(1);
}
flags |= O_ASYNC;
if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, flags) < 0){
perror("setting flags");
exit(1);
}
if (fcntl(fd, F_SETOWN, getpid()) < 0) {
perror("Setting SIGIO");
exit(1);
}
printf("Drained the pool\n");
read(fd, &n, sizeof(n));
printf("Found more randomness\n");
return(0);
}
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| adc782dae6c4c0f6fb679a48a544cfbcd79ae3dc |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: simplify and rename credit_entropy_store
- emphasize bits in the name
- make zero bits lock-free
- simplify logic
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| e68e5b664ecb9bccf68102557107a6b6d739a97c |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: make mixing interface byte-oriented
Switch add_entropy_words to a byte-oriented interface, eliminating numerous
casts and byte/word size rounding issues. This also reduces the overall
bit/byte/word confusion in this code.
We now mix a byte at a time into the word-based pool. This takes four times
as many iterations, but should be negligible compared to hashing overhead.
This also increases our pool churn, which adds some depth against some
theoretical failure modes.
The function name is changed to emphasize pool mixing and deemphasize entropy
(the samples mixed in may not contain any). extract is added to the core
function to make it clear that it extracts from the pool.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
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| 993ba2114c554c1561a018e5c63a771ec8e1c469 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: simplify add_ptr logic
The add_ptr variable wasn't used in a sensible way, use only i instead.
i got reused later for a different purpose, use j instead.
While we're here, put tap0 first in the tap list and add a comment.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 6d38b827400d7c02bce391f90d044e4c57d5bc1e |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: remove some prefetch logic
The urandom output pool (ie the fast path) fits in one cacheline, so
this is pretty unnecessary. Further, the output path has already
fetched the entire pool to hash it before calling in here.
(This was the only user of prefetch_range in the kernel, and it passed
in words rather than bytes!)
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| feee76972bcc54b2b1d1dc28bc6c16a8daa9aff8 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: eliminate redundant new_rotate variable
- eliminate new_rotate
- move input_rotate masking
- simplify input_rotate update
- move input_rotate update to end of inner loop for readability
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 433582093a9dc5454ba03b4a7ea201d85e6aa4de |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: remove cacheline alignment for locks
Earlier changes greatly reduce the number of times we grab the lock
per output byte, so we shouldn't need this particular hack any more.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 1c0ad3d492adf670e47bf0a3d65c6ba5cdee0114 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: make backtracking attacks harder
At each extraction, we change (poolbits / 16) + 32 bits in the pool,
or 96 bits in the case of the secondary pools. Thus, a brute-force
backtracking attack on the pool state is less difficult than breaking
the hash. In certain cases, this difficulty may be is reduced to 2^64
iterations.
Instead, hash the entire pool in one go, then feedback the whole hash
(160 bits) in one go. This will make backtracking at least as hard as
inverting the hash.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| ffd8d3fa5813430fe3926fe950fde23630f6b1a0 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer
- split the SHA variables apart into hash and workspace
- rename data to extract
- wipe extract and workspace after hashing
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 53c3f63e824764da23676e5c718755ff4aac9b63 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: reuse rand_initialize
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 43ae4860ff4a358c29b9d364e45c2d09ad9fa067 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: use unlocked_ioctl
No locking actually needed.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 88c730da8c8b20fa732221725347bd9460842bac |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: consolidate wakeup logic
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 90b75ee54666fe615ebcacfc8d8540b80afdedd5 |
|
29-Apr-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: clean up checkpatch complaints
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 91f3f1e304f2e9ff2c8b9c76efd4fb8ff93110f7 |
|
06-Feb-2008 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() cond_resched() needed
Reduce latency for large writes to /dev/[u]random
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 640e248e44e2c550473550ca83668ceccad21dce |
|
30-Jan-2008 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> |
unexport add_disk_randomness
This patch removes the no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_disk_randomness).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 6dd10a62353a50b30b30e0c18653650975b29c71 |
|
14-Nov-2007 |
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> |
[NET] random : secure_tcp_sequence_number should not assume CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR
All 32 bits machines but i386 dont have CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR. On these
machines, ktime.tv64 is more than 4 times the (correct) result given
by ktime_to_ns()
Again on these machines, using ktime_get_real().tv64 >> 6 give a
32bits rollover every 64 seconds, which is not wanted (less than the
120 s MSL)
Using ktime_to_ns() is the portable way to get nsecs from a ktime, and
have correct code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| c80544dc0b87bb65038355e7aafdc30be16b26ab |
|
18-Oct-2007 |
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> |
sparse pointer use of zero as null
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 9b42c336d06411e6463949d2dac63949f66ff70b |
|
01-Oct-2007 |
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> |
[TCP]: secure_tcp_sequence_number() should not use a too fast clock
TCP V4 sequence numbers are 32bits, and RFC 793 assumed a 250 KHz clock.
In order to follow network speed increase, we can use a faster clock, but
we should limit this clock so that the delay between two rollovers is
greater than MSL (TCP Maximum Segment Lifetime : 2 minutes)
Choosing a 64 nsec clock should be OK, since the rollovers occur every
274 seconds.
Problem spotted by Denys Fedoryshchenko
[ This bug was introduced by f85958151900f9d30fa5ff941b0ce71eaa45a7de ]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 5a021e9ffd56c22700133ebc37d607f95be8f7bd |
|
19-Jul-2007 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105)
If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the
output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with
RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation.
(Bug reported by the PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>)
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 679ce0ace6b1a07043bc3b405a34ddccad808886 |
|
16-Jun-2007 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: fix output buffer folding
(As reported by linux@horizon.com)
Folding is done to minimize the theoretical possibility of systematic
weakness in the particular bits of the SHA1 hash output. The result of
this bug is that 16 out of 80 bits are un-folded. Without a major new
vulnerability being found in SHA1, this is harmless, but still worth
fixing.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 7f397dcdb78d699a20d96bfcfb595a2411a5bbd2 |
|
30-May-2007 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: fix seeding with zero entropy
Add data from zero-entropy random_writes directly to output pools to
avoid accounting difficulties on machines without entropy sources.
Tested on lguest with all entropy sources disabled.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 602b6aeefe8932dd8bb15014e8fe6bb25d736361 |
|
30-May-2007 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
random: fix error in entropy extraction
Fix cast error in entropy extraction.
Add comments explaining the magic 16.
Remove extra confusing loop variable.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| f85958151900f9d30fa5ff941b0ce71eaa45a7de |
|
28-Mar-2007 |
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> |
[NET]: random functions can use nsec resolution instead of usec
In order to get more randomness for secure_tcpv6_sequence_number(),
secure_tcp_sequence_number(), secure_dccp_sequence_number() functions,
we can use the high resolution time services, providing nanosec
resolution.
I've also done two kmalloc()/kzalloc() conversions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| cb69cc52364690d7789940c480b3a9490784b680 |
|
08-Mar-2007 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[TCP/DCCP/RANDOM]: Remove unused exports.
This patch removes the following not or no longer used exports:
- drivers/char/random.c: secure_tcp_sequence_number
- net/dccp/options.c: sysctl_dccp_feat_sequence_window
- net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_set_err
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 2b8693c0617e972fc0b2fd1ebf8de97e15b656c3 |
|
12-Feb-2007 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 1f29bcd739972f71f2fd5d5d265daf3e1208fa5e |
|
10-Dec-2006 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
[PATCH] sysctl: remove unused "context" param
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| a7113a966241b700aecc7b8cb326cecb62e3c4b2 |
|
08-Dec-2006 |
Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> |
[PATCH] struct path: convert char-drivers
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 4c1ac1b49122b805adfa4efc620592f68dccf5db |
|
05-Dec-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c
Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
|
| b09b845ca6724c3bbdc00c0cb2313258c7189ca9 |
|
15-Nov-2006 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
[RANDOM]: Annotate random.h IP helpers.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 65f27f38446e1976cc98fd3004b110fedcddd189 |
|
22-Nov-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.
For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.
To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.
Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).
However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().
In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 52bad64d95bd89e08c49ec5a071fa6dcbe5a1a9c |
|
22-Nov-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.
Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them
into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and
the timer_list removed from work_struct.
The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness. On a 64-bit
architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size. This reduces that by half for the
non-delayable type of event.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 80fc9f532d8c05d4cb12d55660624ce53a378349 |
|
11-Oct-2006 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> |
Input: add missing exports to fix modular build
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| e9ff3990f08e9a0c2839cc22808b01732ea5b3e4 |
|
02-Oct-2006 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: switch to using uts namespaces
Replace references to system_utsname to the per-process uts namespace
where appropriate. This includes things like uname.
Changes: Per Eric Biederman's comments, use the per-process uts namespace
for ELF_PLATFORM, sunrpc, and parts of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
[jdike@addtoit.com: UML fix]
[clg@fr.ibm.com: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 |
|
30-Sep-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.
This patch does the following:
(*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
support.
(*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
an item that uses the block layer. This includes:
(*) Block I/O tracing.
(*) Disk partition code.
(*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.
(*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.
(*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
drivers.
(*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.
(*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.
(*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is,
however, still used in places, and so is still available.
(*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
parts of linux/fs.h.
(*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
is not enabled.
(*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:
(*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).
(*) Makes some /proc changes:
(*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.
(*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.
(*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.
(*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.
(*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).
(*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| e4d919188554a77c798a267e098059bc9aa39726 |
|
03-Jul-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement
Locking init improvement:
- introduce and use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED for array initializations,
to pass in the name string of locks, used by debugging
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 6ab3d5624e172c553004ecc862bfeac16d9d68b7 |
|
30-Jun-2006 |
Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> |
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| 30aaa154fc21ad1ee4400e28009732a04a80862f |
|
10-Apr-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[IPV6]: Unexport secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral
This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| d251575ab60ca2b5337574bfaf8f8b583f18059e |
|
11-Jan-2006 |
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] random: get rid of sparse warning
Get rid of bogus extern attribute that causes sparse warning.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/drivers/char/random.c
|
| d8313f5ca2b1f86b7df6c99fc4b3fffa1f84e92b |
|
14-Dec-2005 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> |
[INET6]: Generalise tcp_v6_hash_connect
Renaming it to inet6_hash_connect, making it possible to ditch
dccp_v6_hash_connect and share the same code with TCP instead.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
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14-Dec-2005 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> |
[INET]: Generalise tcp_v4_hash_connect
Renaming it to inet_hash_connect, making it possible to ditch
dccp_v4_hash_connect and share the same code with TCP instead.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
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10-Aug-2005 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> |
[RANDOM]: Introduce secure_dccp_sequence_number
Code contributed by Stephen Hemminger.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/drivers/char/random.c
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08-Jul-2005 |
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> |
[PATCH] mostly_read data section
Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.
If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.
The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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17-Apr-2005 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
[PATCH] update maintainer for /dev/random
Ted has agreed to let me take over as maintainer of /dev/random and
friends. I've gone ahead and added a line to his entry in CREDITS.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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17-Apr-2005 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
/drivers/char/random.c
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