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random: only wake up writers after zap if threshold was passed

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The only time that we need to wake up /dev/random writers on
RNDCLEARPOOL/RNDZAPPOOL is when we're changing from a value that is
greater than or equal to POOL_MIN_BITS to zero, because if we're
changing from below POOL_MIN_BITS to zero, the writers are already
unblocked.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld 2022-02-22 14:01:57 +01:00
parent da3951ebdc
commit a3f9e8910e
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drivers/char/random.c
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@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ static long random_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
*/
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (xchg(&input_pool.entropy_count, 0)) {
if (xchg(&input_pool.entropy_count, 0) >= POOL_MIN_BITS) {
wake_up_interruptible(&random_write_wait);
kill_fasync(&fasync, SIGIO, POLL_OUT);
}