Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Add support for architectural random numbergenerator

[Herbert Xu]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 02:26:53PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This version of the patchset uses inlines with alternatives as
> proposed by Linus.  In order to avoid the issue of "random" vs
> "urandom", this hooks into *only* the kernel consumer interfaces
> get_random_bytes() and get_random_int(); this means that legacy users
> of /dev/urandom in userspace will not get direct use RDRAND, but those
> can be eventually converted to using RDRAND directly in userspace.
> 
> We can, of course, still both pools randomness via rngd or a future
> in-kernel mechanism as proposed by Matt.
> 
> Since there was a minor amount of confusion I want to clarify: RDRAND
> architecturally has weaker security guarantees than the documented
> interface for /dev/random, so we can't just replace all users of
> extract_entropy() with RDRAND.
> 
> Git tree also available:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-rdrand.git rdrand-3
> 
> Again, for technical documentation see:
> 
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-the-latest-bull-mountain-software-implementation-guide/

FWIW these patches look good to me and I'm happy to take them
if Linus doesn't merge them directly.

Thanks,
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