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Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property |
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Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:12:23 +0100 |
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 17:07, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>
> In 60592cfed2 ("hw/arm/virt: dt: add kaslr-seed property"), the
> kaslr-seed property was added, but the equally as important rng-seed
> property was forgotten about, which has identical semantics for a
> similar purpose. This commit implements it in exactly the same way as
> kaslr-seed.
Not an objection, since if this is what the dtb spec says we need
to provide then I guess we need to provide it, but:
Why do we need to give the kernel two separate random seeds?
Isn't one sufficient for the kernel to seed its RNG and generate
whatever randomness it needs for whatever purposes it wants it?
thanks
-- PMM
- [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Jason A. Donenfeld, 2022/06/27
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Jason A. Donenfeld, 2022/06/27
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Jason A. Donenfeld, 2022/06/28
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Peter Maydell, 2022/06/29
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Alex Bennée, 2022/06/29
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Alex Bennée, 2022/06/29
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Jason A. Donenfeld, 2022/06/29
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Alex Bennée, 2022/06/29
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Jason A. Donenfeld, 2022/06/29
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Peter Maydell, 2022/06/30
- Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: dt: add rng-seed property, Jason A. Donenfeld, 2022/06/30