Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Stephan Müller <> | Subject | [PATCH 7/8] random: remove noop function call to xfer_secondary_pool | Date | Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:41:46 +0100 |
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Since the introduction of the ChaCha20 DRNG, extract_entropy is only invoked with the input_pool. For this entropy pool, xfer_secondary_pool is a no-op and can therefore be safely removed.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> --- drivers/char/random.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 89d67c0..7b72a01 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1417,7 +1417,6 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void *buf, } trace_extract_entropy(r->name, nbytes, ENTROPY_BITS(r), _RET_IP_); - xfer_secondary_pool(r, nbytes); nbytes = account(r, nbytes, min, reserved); return _extract_entropy(r, buf, nbytes, fips_enabled); -- 2.9.3
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