Re: [PATCH v3] random: absorb fast pool into input pool after fast load

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Mon Feb 21 2022 - 09:57:36 EST


On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 3:47 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This looks fine, though it's unfortunate that it has to be a trylock so this
> isn't guaranteed. Also, the commit message is a bit misleading because it talks
> about "overwriting" the primary_crng key, but at this point in the series the
> extracted entropy is still being XOR'd with the primary_crng key. It's not
> until the next patch that the key is simply overwritten.

I'll fix up the commit message.