Linus Torvalds 0891ad829d The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in ... the following areas: performance, avoiding waste of entropy, better tracking of entropy estimates, support for non-x86 platforms that have a register which can't be used for fine-grained timekeeping, but which might be good enough for the random driver. Also add some printk's so that we can see how quickly /dev/urandom can get initialized, and when programs try to use /dev/urandom before it is fully initialized (since this could be a security issue). This shouldn't be an issue on x86 desktop/laptops --- a test on my Lenovo T430s laptop shows that /dev/urandom is getting fully initialized approximately two seconds before the root file system is mounted read/write --- this may be an issue with ARM and MIPS embedded/mobile systems, though. These printk's will be a useful canary before potentially adding a future change to start blocking processes which try to read from /dev/urandom before it is initialized, which is something FreeBSD does already for security reasons, and which security folks have been agitating for Linux to also adopt. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABCAAGBQJShC4MAAoJENNvdpvBGATwC0QQAMujsIxTZnsHwQrbb5eJf1kD 74TwQyEfWw5qnGQrc8JOoAbe1MG7C4QlfHxRsWxvCD8G+Mft4Q5ZgZOt0/ecAGD6 Tid58EaZGSfK9+YE6jgvJFekQADCREdPSxBASJ3cECT6dXXBX9IqR9gbAK02mM+w QZdbgWBMsPJZiHSsCNeRbZ9oIiPdcNDsMJwzJhirPUeAnKCaX3z+LWc3XcMw7wYi q5cSl0ENZd6QsBKs37A1ol5BtLEsoot2t3HKdnpOBsDQKSJ712KduwN5jUfs6h9D 0fqmVHwfKsge+D8/3NgBKz+yWLQnGkuB4Ibo+09BZXwH3rYU1/gKm0iLNi0yQ5fV 73bn4pqF6cZdDNgj0Ic+MyYAW+S/NOQ6TcF/3eSAPW6z/wHZOfZ2njCh1GEHBOKI 6iZZu+Ek7QyFJ/z5Fr1bXFJR7V99r7hRD3gwMCMZ/mjhloB2cyD0a2A9kFP85ykI I4tFEnq0FpX/K60ag4hiLnqVx/TsmbdMoz+8OpQckHgQJrZMuRRf1d+T4au47Y6K uXGLpSuvkALYW2koo2OoO2d873N/89fqFL8lI8Iy0YlgAxxxm++gl1Mql/E1wPOa 5jB0lW/jex/CquE7meTgRlM/fTU/HVbe3608ZNUYBJUHS9K/PaSnCCu2ya8/TsSW xeVS/vMnNvtGerdEIyKm =wla0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random Pull /dev/random changes from Ted Ts'o: "The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in the following areas: performance, avoiding waste of entropy, better tracking of entropy estimates, support for non-x86 platforms that have a register which can't be used for fine-grained timekeeping, but which might be good enough for the random driver. Also add some printk's so that we can see how quickly /dev/urandom can get initialized, and when programs try to use /dev/urandom before it is fully initialized (since this could be a security issue). This shouldn't be an issue on x86 desktop/laptops --- a test on my Lenovo T430s laptop shows that /dev/urandom is getting fully initialized approximately two seconds before the root file system is mounted read/write --- this may be an issue with ARM and MIPS embedded/mobile systems, though. These printk's will be a useful canary before potentially adding a future change to start blocking processes which try to read from /dev/urandom before it is initialized, which is something FreeBSD does already for security reasons, and which security folks have been agitating for Linux to also adopt" * tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: random: add debugging code to detect early use of get_random_bytes() random: initialize the last_time field in struct timer_rand_state random: don't zap entropy count in rand_initialize() random: printk notifications for urandom pool initialization random: make add_timer_randomness() fill the nonblocking pool first random: convert DEBUG_ENT to tracepoints random: push extra entropy to the output pools random: drop trickle mode random: adjust the generator polynomials in the mixing function slightly random: speed up the fast_mix function by a factor of four random: cap the rate which the /dev/urandom pool gets reseeded random: optimize the entropy_store structure random: optimize spinlock use in add_device_randomness() random: fix the tracepoint for get_random_bytes(_arch) random: account for entropy loss due to overwrites random: allow fractional bits to be tracked random: statically compute poolbitshift, poolbytes, poolbits random: mix in architectural randomness earlier in extract_buf()		2013-11-16 10:19:15 -08:00
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events	The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in	2013-11-16 10:19:15 -08:00
define_trace.h	tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro	2013-06-20 22:24:32 -07:00
ftrace.h	tracing/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_*() in perf_trace_##call() when possible	2013-08-13 21:06:30 -04:00
syscall.h	tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment	2013-07-01 20:34:25 -04:00