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| author | Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> | 2015-06-09 16:55:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-06-10 14:14:01 +0300 |
| commit | 57225e6797885e31302e76fc5926c0bedd7e5ad4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8cdb966886dcc891cb8c5dd8fd0a90a6f4437983 /include/linux/random.h | |
| parent | 205a525c334295e3cd4cc7755fd2c0398e3a787f (diff) | |
| download | linux-57225e6797885e31302e76fc5926c0bedd7e5ad4.tar.xz | |
crypto: drbg - Use callback API for random readiness
The get_blocking_random_bytes API is broken because the wait can
be arbitrarily long (potentially forever) so there is no safe way
of calling it from within the kernel.
This patch replaces it with the new callback API which does not
have this problem.
The patch also removes the entropy buffer registered with the DRBG
handle in favor of stack variables to hold the seed data.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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