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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] random: group entropy collection functions
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:17:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9qs5gBFrGXGktB9kOx8oSdfow+-Tc=ie7b1J8aT5SfQ7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YhMfhipo95HxVaFO@sol.localdomain>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:13 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 01:23:15PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > +/**********************************************************************
> > + *
> > + * Entropy collection routines.
> > + *
> > + * The following exported functions are used for pushing entropy into
> > + * the above entropy accumulation routines:
> > + *
> > + *   void add_device_randomness(const void *buf, size_t size);
> > + *   void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
> > + *                             unsigned int value);
> > + *   void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq);
> > + *   void add_disk_randomness(struct gendisk *disk);
> > + *   void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const void *buffer, size_t count,
> > + *                                   size_t entropy);
> > + *   void add_bootloader_randomness(const void *buf, size_t size);
> > + *
> > + * add_device_randomness() adds data to the input pool that
> > + * is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly even per boot).
> > + * This would be things like MAC addresses or serial numbers, or the
> > + * read-out of the RTC. This does *not* credit any actual entropy to
> > + * the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values for devices
> > + * that might otherwise be identical and have very little entropy
> > + * available to them (particularly common in the embedded world).
>
> Perhaps this comment should match the order in which these functions are defined
> in the file?

Sure. Will do

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-21 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-12 12:23 [PATCH v2 00/10] random: re-group and re-document functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] random: introduce drain_entropy() helper to declutter crng_reseed() Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  4:34   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-21 14:49     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21 14:49       ` [PATCH v3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21 19:19         ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] random: remove useless header comment Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  4:34   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] random: remove whitespace and reorder includes Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  4:35   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] random: group initialization wait functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-13  6:54   ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-02-13 13:11     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  4:49   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-21 15:10     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21 15:14       ` [PATCH v3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21 19:20         ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] random: group crng functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-13  6:54   ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-02-13 13:14     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  5:00   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] random: group entropy extraction functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  5:05   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] random: group entropy collection functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-13  6:54   ` Dominik Brodowski
2022-02-13 13:16     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  5:13   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-21 15:17     ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-02-21 15:18       ` [PATCH v3] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21 19:23         ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] random: group userspace read/write functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  5:16   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] random: group sysctl functions Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  5:21   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-21 15:27     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21 15:39       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-12 12:23 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] random: rewrite header introductory comment Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-02-21  5:26   ` Eric Biggers
2022-02-13  6:55 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] random: re-group and re-document functions Dominik Brodowski
2022-02-13 13:07   ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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