From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757108Ab2HOTz6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:55:58 -0400 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:37437 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932250Ab2HOTxE (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:53:04 -0400 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , CC: Tony Luck , "Theodore Ts'o" , Paul Gortmaker Subject: [v2.6.34-stable 165/165] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:48:29 -0400 Message-ID: <1345060109-9187-166-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.rc2 In-Reply-To: <1345060109-9187-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1345060109-9187-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tony Luck ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream. Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c index d464672..1816d92 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include /* @@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *, dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL); + add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len); + dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len); return 0; } -- 1.7.12.rc2