Re: random: Wake up writers when random pools are zapped

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat May 19 2018 - 22:06:43 EST


On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 05:55:19PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, how/when were you using RNDCLEARPOOL/RNDZAPENTCNT?
> Hopefully it was only testing hw_random drivers, or some such?

I wasn't actually using it myself. Someone else filed a bug
against RHEL complaining about this and I was just clearing my
decks :)

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