From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Fix add_timer_randomness throttling
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 15:00:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150204140029.GA2949@lst.de> (raw)
Hi Ted,
review of a backport of a283b5c459784f97 suggests to me that it has one
replacement too much: in add_timer_randomness, entropy_count is compared
to trickle_thresh, which are _both_ scaled up by ENTROPY_SHIFT. I'd therefore
revert that hunk.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
@@ -674,7 +697,7 @@ static void add_timer_randomness(struct timer_rand_state *state, unsigned num)
preempt_disable();
/* if over the trickle threshold, use only 1 in 4096 samples */
- if (ENTROPY_BITS(&input_pool) > trickle_thresh &&
+ if (input_pool.entropy_count > trickle_thresh &&
((__this_cpu_inc_return(trickle_count) - 1) & 0xfff))
goto out;
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-04 14:00 UTC|newest]
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2015-02-04 14:00 Torsten Duwe [this message]
2015-02-23 10:45 ` [RESEND][PATCH] Fix add_timer_randomness throttling Torsten Duwe
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