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hwrng: add per-device entropy derating

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This patch introduces a derating factor to struct hwrng for
the random bits going into the kernel input pool, and a common
default derating for drivers which do not specify one.

Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Torsten Duwe 2014-06-14 23:48:41 -04:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent be4000bc46
commit 0f734e6e76
2 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/hw_random.h
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@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
* @read: New API. drivers can fill up to max bytes of data
* into the buffer. The buffer is aligned for any type.
* @priv: Private data, for use by the RNG driver.
* @quality: Estimation of true entropy in RNG's bitstream
* (per mill).
*/
struct hwrng {
const char *name;
@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ struct hwrng {
int (*data_read)(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data);
int (*read)(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max, bool wait);
unsigned long priv;
unsigned short quality;
/* internal. */
struct list_head list;