Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:19:57PM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
>
> Hmmm, yes - the patch fixes the crashes, i.e. no more crashes with
> either sequence of module-loading, cat rng_available works as well,
> but...
> 
> Having this patch active rngd complains:
> 	rngd[1435]: rngd 2-unofficial-mt.13 starting up...
> 	rngd[1435]: block failed FIPS test: 0x1f
> 	rngd[1435]: block failed FIPS test: 0x1f
> 	...
> 	rngd[1435]: stats: entropy added to kernel pool: 0
> 	rngd[1435]: stats: FIPS 140-2 successes: 0
> 	rngd[1435]: stats: FIPS 140-2 failures: 10
> 
> It doesn't do this without the patch.
> The only available rng was via, I did blacklist the others just to be
> sure.

Hmm, can you print out what it's actually producing (e.g., by
stracing rngd)?

Can you also double-check that this doesn't happen with Larry's
patch?

Thanks,
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