linux/drivers/char
Torsten Duwe be4000bc46 hwrng: create filler thread
This can be viewed as the in-kernel equivalent of hwrngd;
like FUSE it is a good thing to have a mechanism in user land,
but for some reasons (simplicity, secrecy, integrity, speed)
it may be better to have it in kernel space.

This patch creates a thread once a hwrng registers, and uses
the previously established add_hwgenerator_randomness() to feed
its data to the input pool as long as needed. A derating factor
is used to bias the entropy estimation and to disable this
mechanism entirely when set to zero.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-07-15 04:49:40 -04:00
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agp agp: info leak in agpioc_info_wrap() 2014-05-06 13:05:00 -07:00
hw_random hwrng: create filler thread 2014-07-15 04:49:40 -04:00
ipmi Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to avoid conflicts 2014-05-07 13:15:46 +02:00
mwave drivers/char: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-02-07 15:10:19 -08:00
pcmcia tty: Fix help text of SYNCLINK_CS 2014-04-16 14:31:13 -07:00
tpm Merge branch 'acpica' 2014-06-03 23:12:27 +02:00
xilinx_hwicap char: hwicap: Remove unnecessary dev_set_drvdata() 2013-10-03 16:03:31 -07:00
apm-emulation.c apm-emulation: add hibernation APM events to support suspend2disk 2014-01-07 13:50:28 +01:00
applicom.c applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path 2014-05-27 17:43:12 -07:00
applicom.h
bfin-otp.c
bsr.c drivers: clean-up prom.h implicit includes 2013-10-09 20:04:04 -05:00
ds1302.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
ds1620.c ds1620: single_open() leak 2013-05-05 00:11:29 -04:00
dsp56k.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
dtlk.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
efirtc.c rtc: single_open() leaks 2013-05-05 00:12:29 -04:00
generic_nvram.c
genrtc.c rtc: single_open() leaks 2013-05-05 00:12:29 -04:00
hangcheck-timer.c
hpet.c ACPI: Clean up inclusions of ACPI header files 2013-12-07 01:03:14 +01:00
i8k.c i8k: Fix non-SMP operation 2014-07-09 16:45:36 -07:00
Kconfig ttyprintk: Allow built as a module 2014-04-16 14:21:06 -07:00
lp.c char: Int overflow in lp_do_ioctl(). 2013-12-18 16:39:54 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2014-01-29 20:49:12 -08:00
mbcs.c char: remove use of __devinitconst 2012-11-21 12:55:19 -08:00
mbcs.h
mem.c /dev/mem: handle out-of-bounds read/write 2014-02-15 11:51:02 -08:00
misc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-11-13 15:34:18 +09:00
mmtimer.c drivers/char/mmtimer.c: Remove useless kfree 2012-09-26 13:20:40 -07:00
msm_smd_pkt.c treewide: Fix typos in printk 2013-12-19 15:10:49 +01:00
mspec.c char: Use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT 2013-05-21 10:07:54 -07:00
nsc_gpio.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
nvram.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
nwbutton.c char: nwbutton: open-code interruptible_sleep_on 2014-01-08 15:29:52 -08:00
nwbutton.h
nwflash.c Merge branch 'late/fixes' into fixes 2012-10-07 07:22:32 -07:00
pc8736x_gpio.c pc8736x_gpio: use platform_device_unregister in pc8736x_gpio_cleanup() 2012-10-24 15:52:29 -07:00
ppdev.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
ps3flash.c ps3flash: switch to generic_file_llseek_size() 2013-06-29 12:57:33 +04:00
random.c random: add_hwgenerator_randomness() for feeding entropy from devices 2014-07-15 04:49:40 -04:00
raw.c blkdev_aio_write() - turn into blkdev_write_iter() 2014-05-06 17:38:01 -04:00
rtc.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
scx200_gpio.c
snsc_event.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
snsc.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
snsc.h
sonypi.c ACPI: Remove the old /proc/acpi/event interface 2013-07-15 13:56:36 +02:00
tb0219.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
tile-srom.c drivers/char: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-02-07 15:10:19 -08:00
tlclk.c tlclk: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
toshiba.c
ttyprintk.c ttyprintk: Allow built as a module 2014-04-16 14:21:06 -07:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c pipe: kill ->map() and ->unmap() 2014-04-01 23:19:19 -04:00