Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] random: use computational hash for entropy extraction, and related fixes

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Feb 08 2022 - 01:48:45 EST


On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> The bulk of the motivation for this and description of crypto
> vulnerabilities is in the first patch of this series. The following
> three patches then fix up entropy accounting for the new model. The last
> patch fixes a minor code safety issue.
>
> This v3 fixes comments and commit message wording, simplifies a bit of
> code in a cmpxchg loop, and adjusts semantics around the poll write
> wakeup threshold.
>
> Jason A. Donenfeld (5):
> random: use computational hash for entropy extraction
> random: simplify entropy debiting
> random: use linear min-entropy accumulation crediting
> random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction
> random: make credit_entropy_bits() always safe
>
> drivers/char/random.c | 501 ++++++----------------------------
> include/trace/events/random.h | 30 +-
> 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 444 deletions(-)

Looks good, thanks! You can add for the series:

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Eric