From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: [ 83/95] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:43:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120909224201.973656589@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120909224150.641491654@decadent.org.uk>
3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream.
Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index 153980b..b298158 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/dmi.h>
#include <linux/efi.h>
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <asm/dmi.h>
/*
@@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *,
dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL);
+ add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len);
+
dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len);
return 0;
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 23:31 UTC|newest]
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2012-09-09 22:41 [ 00/95] 3.2.29-stable review Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 01/95] HID: add ASUS AIO keyboard model AK1D Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 02/95] nfs: tear down caches in nfs_init_writepagecache when allocation fails Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 03/95] NFS: Use kcalloc() when allocating arrays Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 04/95] NFSv4.1 fix page number calculation bug for filelayout decode buffers Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 05/95] fix page number calculation bug for block layout decode buffer Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 06/95] pnfs: defer release of pages in layoutget Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 07/95] ext4: avoid kmemcheck complaint from reading uninitialized memory Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 08/95] fuse: verify all ioctl retry iov elements Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:41 ` [ 09/95] Bluetooth: Fix legacy pairing with some devices Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 10/95] xhci: Increase reset timeout for Renesas 720201 host Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 11/95] xhci: Add Etron XHCI_TRUST_TX_LENGTH quirk Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 12/95] xhci: Switch PPT ports to EHCI on shutdown Ben Hutchings
2012-09-10 11:09 ` Denis Turischev
2012-09-10 15:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 13/95] USB: ftdi_sio: Add VID/PID for Kondo Serial USB Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 14/95] USB: option: Add Vodafone/Huawei K5005 support Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 15/95] USB: add USB_VENDOR_AND_INTERFACE_INFO() macro Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 16/95] USB: support the new interfaces of Huawei Data Card devices in option driver Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 17/95] usb: serial: mos7840: Fixup mos7840_chars_in_buffer() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 18/95] usb: gadget: u_ether: fix kworker 100% CPU issue with still used interfaces in eth_stop Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 19/95] ARM: 7483/1: vfp: only advertise VFPv4 in hwcaps if CONFIG_VFPv3 is enabled Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 20/95] ARM: 7488/1: mm: use 5 bits for swapfile type encoding Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 21/95] ARM: 7489/1: errata: fix workaround for erratum #720789 on UP systems Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 22/95] drm/i915: ignore eDP bpc settings from vbt Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 23/95] ALSA: hda - fix Copyright debug message Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 24/95] sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 25/95] mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 23:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-09-09 23:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 26/95] ath9k: fix decrypt_error initialization in ath_rx_tasklet() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 27/95] drm/nvd0/disp: mask off high 16 bit of negative cursor x-coordinate Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 28/95] drm/i915: reorder edp disabling to fix ivb MacBook Air Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 29/95] audit: dont free_chunk() after fsnotify_add_mark() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 30/95] audit: fix refcounting in audit-tree Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 31/95] vfs: canonicalize create mode in build_open_flags() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 32/95] PCI: EHCI: Fix crash during hibernation on ASUS computers Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 33/95] IB/srp: Fix a race condition Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 34/95] USB: option: add ZTE K5006-Z Ben Hutchings
2012-09-10 17:11 ` Thomas Schäfer
2012-09-11 7:43 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-09-12 2:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-13 15:22 ` Thomas Schäfer
2012-09-16 16:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 35/95] dccp: check ccid before dereferencing Ben Hutchings
2012-09-10 6:17 ` Mathias Krause
2012-09-10 6:47 ` David Miller
2012-09-10 7:10 ` Mathias Krause
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 36/95] md: Dont truncate size at 4TB for RAID0 and Linear Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 37/95] NFS: Alias the nfs module to nfs4 Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 38/95] target: fix NULL pointer dereference bug alloc_page() fails to get memory Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 39/95] ext4: fix long mount times on very big file systems Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 40/95] PM / Runtime: Fix rpm_resume() return value for power.no_callbacks set Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 41/95] PM / Runtime: Clear power.deferred_resume on success in rpm_suspend() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 42/95] ASoC: wm9712: Fix microphone source selection Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 43/95] USB: smsusb: remove __devinit* from the struct usb_device_id table Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 44/95] USB: spca506: " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 45/95] USB: p54usb: " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 46/95] USB: rtl8187: " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 47/95] USB: vt6656: " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 48/95] USB: winbond: " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 49/95] USB: emi62: " Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 50/95] USB: CDC ACM: Fix NULL pointer dereference Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 51/95] alpha: Dont export SOCK_NONBLOCK to user space Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 52/95] Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 53/95] ALSA: hda - dont create dysfunctional mixer controls for ca0132 Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 54/95] netconsole: remove a redundant netconsole_target_put() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 55/95] drm/radeon/kms: upstream atombios.h updates Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 56/95] drm/radeon/kms: extend the Fujitsu D3003-S2 board connector quirk to cover later silicon stepping Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 57/95] drm/radeon: implement ACPI VFCT vbios fetch (v3) Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 58/95] ACPI: export symbol acpi_get_table_with_size Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 59/95] drm/radeon: convert radeon vfct code to use acpi_get_table_with_size Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 60/95] drm/radeon: fix invalid memory access in radeon_atrm_get_bios() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 61/95] drm/radeon: finish getting bios earlier Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 62/95] drm/radeon: fix use after free in ATRM bios reading code Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 63/95] drm/radeon: split ATRM support out from the ATPX handler (v3) Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 64/95] NFSv3: Ensure that do_proc_get_root() reports errors correctly Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 65/95] vfs: missed source of ->f_pos races Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 66/95] svcrpc: fix BUG() in svc_tcp_clear_pages Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 67/95] svcrpc: sends on closed socket should stop immediately Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 68/95] svcrpc: fix svc_xprt_enqueue/svc_recv busy-looping Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:42 ` [ 69/95] Revert "drm/radeon: fix bo creation retry path" Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 70/95] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1) Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 71/95] cciss: fix incorrect scsi status reporting Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 72/95] mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 73/95] drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c: SGI XPC fails to load when cpu 0 is out of IRQ resources Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 74/95] drivers/rtc/rtc-rs5c348.c: fix hour decoding in 12-hour mode Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 75/95] rapidio/tsi721: fix inbound doorbell interrupt handling Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 76/95] rapidio/tsi721: fix unused variable compiler warning Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 77/95] fs/buffer.c: remove BUG() in possible but rare condition Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 78/95] block: replace __getblk_slow misfix by grow_dev_page fix Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 79/95] Bluetooth: Fix using uninitialized option in RFCMode Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 80/95] drivers/char/random.c: fix boot id uniqueness race Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 81/95] MAINTAINERS: Theodore Tso is taking over the random driver Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 82/95] random: Add comment to random_initialize() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 84/95] virtio_blk: fix config handler race Ben Hutchings
2012-09-10 2:26 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-10 2:45 ` Asias He
2012-09-10 15:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 85/95] virtio_blk: Drop unused request tracking list Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 86/95] virtio-blk: Fix hot-unplug race in remove method Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 87/95] virtio-blk: Call del_gendisk() before disable guest kick Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 88/95] virtio-blk: Reset device after blk_cleanup_queue() Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 89/95] HID: add support for Cypress barcode scanner 04B4:ED81 Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 90/95] pmac_zilog,kdb: Fix console poll hook to return instead of loop Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 91/95] Staging: speakup: fix an improperly-declared variable Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 92/95] NFS: Fix Oopses in nfs_lookup_revalidate and nfs4_lookup_revalidate Ben Hutchings
2012-09-12 6:45 ` Suresh Jayaraman
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 93/95] asus-nb-wmi: add some video toggle keys Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 94/95] Squashfs: fix mount time sanity check for corrupted superblock Ben Hutchings
2012-09-09 22:43 ` [ 95/95] mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0 Ben Hutchings
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