From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756098Ab2IIXbu (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:31:50 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:51215 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755770Ab2IIXQO (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:16:14 -0400 Message-Id: <20120909224201.973656589@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:43:13 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings 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 , Theodore Tso Subject: [ 83/95] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver In-Reply-To: <20120909224150.641491654@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tony Luck commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream. Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- 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 #include #include +#include #include /* @@ -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; }