Re: [PATCH 6/7] random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly userspace programs

From: Jan Varho
Date: Sun Aug 21 2016 - 05:56:43 EST


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> +static inline void maybe_reseed_primary_crng(void)
> +{
> + if (crng_init > 2 &&
> + time_after(jiffies, primary_crng.init_time + CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL))
> + crng_reseed(&primary_crng, &input_pool);
> +}

Hi,

Is the above function (which is now in 4.8-rc2) supposed to do
something? It seems to have no callers and the maximum value of
crng_init is 2.
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Jan Varho