Re: [PATCH] random: Don't overwrite CRNG state in crng_initialize()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Feb 09 2017 - 01:48:20 EST


On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 08:31:26PM -0700, Alden Tondettar wrote:
> In short, the situation is:
>
> A) No usable hardware RNG or arch_get_random() (or we don't trust it...)

Wait, why would you not trust arch_get_random()? Is it broken somehow
on some arches? If so, why not fix that as well?

thanks,

greg k-h