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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/core.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 1d342f0cb0c1..787ef42a77b9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ module_param(default_quality, ushort, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(default_quality,
"default entropy content of hwrng per mill");
+static void drop_current_rng(void);
static void start_khwrngd(void);
static inline int rng_get_data(struct hwrng *rng, u8 *buffer, size_t size,
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref)
static void set_current_rng(struct hwrng *rng)
{
BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&rng_mutex));
+ drop_current_rng();
current_rng = rng;
}
@@ -315,7 +317,6 @@ static ssize_t hwrng_attr_current_store(struct device *dev,
err = hwrng_init(rng);
if (err)
break;
- drop_current_rng();
set_current_rng(rng);
err = 0;
break;