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Commit 818e607b authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull random driver updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A number of improvements for the /dev/random driver; the most
  important is the use of a ChaCha20-based CRNG for /dev/urandom, which
  is faster, more efficient, and easier to make scalable for
  silly/abusive userspace programs that want to read from /dev/urandom
  in a tight loop on NUMA systems.

  This set of patches also improves entropy gathering on VM's running on
  Microsoft Azure, and will take advantage of a hw random number
  generator (if present) to initialize the /dev/urandom pool"

(It turns out that the random tree hadn't been in linux-next this time
around, because it had been dropped earlier as being too quiet.  Oh
well).

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: strengthen input validation for RNDADDTOENTCNT
  random: add backtracking protection to the CRNG
  random: make /dev/urandom scalable for...
parents ff9a082f 86a574de
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