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Change /dev/random so that it uses the CRNG and only blocking if the

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CRNG hasn't initialized, instead of the old blocking pool.  Also clean
 up archrandom.h, and some other miscellaneous cleanups.
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull random changes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Change /dev/random so that it uses the CRNG and only blocking if the
  CRNG hasn't initialized, instead of the old blocking pool. Also clean
  up archrandom.h, and some other miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: (24 commits)
  s390x: Mark archrandom.h functions __must_check
  powerpc: Mark archrandom.h functions __must_check
  powerpc: Use bool in archrandom.h
  x86: Mark archrandom.h functions __must_check
  linux/random.h: Mark CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM functions __must_check
  linux/random.h: Use false with bool
  linux/random.h: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  s390: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  powerpc: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  x86: Remove arch_has_random, arch_has_random_seed
  random: remove some dead code of poolinfo
  random: fix typo in add_timer_randomness()
  random: Add and use pr_fmt()
  random: convert to ENTROPY_BITS for better code readability
  random: remove unnecessary unlikely()
  random: remove kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold
  random: delete code to pull data into pools
  random: remove the blocking pool
  random: make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom
  random: ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2)
  ...
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Linus Torvalds 2020-02-01 09:48:37 -08:00
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@ -48,9 +48,11 @@ struct rand_pool_info {
* Flags for getrandom(2)
*
* GRND_NONBLOCK Don't block and return EAGAIN instead
* GRND_RANDOM Use the /dev/random pool instead of /dev/urandom
* GRND_RANDOM No effect
* GRND_INSECURE Return non-cryptographic random bytes
*/
#define GRND_NONBLOCK 0x0001
#define GRND_RANDOM 0x0002
#define GRND_INSECURE 0x0004
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_RANDOM_H */