From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] random: Remove kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:30:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez2tnJzLNCgAqCC+AOKuLGBSvBRi2_HZ97bEJ0zP1kWLHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66b16acf2953fc033abc9641b9cf43d23e75a8e9.1568990048.git.luto@kernel.org>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 4:37 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> It has no effect any more, so remove it. We can revert this if
> there is some user code that expects to be able to set this sysctl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/char/random.c | 18 +-----------------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
[...]
> - {
> - .procname = "read_wakeup_threshold",
There's a line in bin_random_table in kernel/sysctl_binary.c that
refers to this sysctl, that should probably also be deleted?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-24 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 14:36 [PATCH v2 0/7] Rework random blocking Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] random: Don't wake crng_init_wait when crng_init == 1 Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] random: Add GRND_INSECURE to return best-effort non-cryptographic bytes Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] random: Ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2) Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] random: Make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] random: Remove the blocking pool Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] random: Delete code to pull data into pools Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-20 14:36 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] random: Remove kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-24 20:30 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2019-09-26 1:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-20 14:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Rework random blocking Andy Lutomirski
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