linux/drivers/char
Linus Torvalds 0891ad829d The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in
the following areas: performance, avoiding waste of entropy, better
 tracking of entropy estimates, support for non-x86 platforms that have
 a register which can't be used for fine-grained timekeeping, but which
 might be good enough for the random driver.
 
 Also add some printk's so that we can see how quickly /dev/urandom can
 get initialized, and when programs try to use /dev/urandom before it
 is fully initialized (since this could be a security issue).  This
 shouldn't be an issue on x86 desktop/laptops --- a test on my Lenovo
 T430s laptop shows that /dev/urandom is getting fully initialized
 approximately two seconds before the root file system is mounted
 read/write --- this may be an issue with ARM and MIPS embedded/mobile
 systems, though.  These printk's will be a useful canary before
 potentially adding a future change to start blocking processes which
 try to read from /dev/urandom before it is initialized, which is
 something FreeBSD does already for security reasons, and which
 security folks have been agitating for Linux to also adopt.
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull /dev/random changes from Ted Ts'o:
 "The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in
  the following areas: performance, avoiding waste of entropy, better
  tracking of entropy estimates, support for non-x86 platforms that have
  a register which can't be used for fine-grained timekeeping, but which
  might be good enough for the random driver.

  Also add some printk's so that we can see how quickly /dev/urandom can
  get initialized, and when programs try to use /dev/urandom before it
  is fully initialized (since this could be a security issue).  This
  shouldn't be an issue on x86 desktop/laptops --- a test on my Lenovo
  T430s laptop shows that /dev/urandom is getting fully initialized
  approximately two seconds before the root file system is mounted
  read/write --- this may be an issue with ARM and MIPS embedded/mobile
  systems, though.  These printk's will be a useful canary before
  potentially adding a future change to start blocking processes which
  try to read from /dev/urandom before it is initialized, which is
  something FreeBSD does already for security reasons, and which
  security folks have been agitating for Linux to also adopt"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: add debugging code to detect early use of get_random_bytes()
  random: initialize the last_time field in struct timer_rand_state
  random: don't zap entropy count in rand_initialize()
  random: printk notifications for urandom pool initialization
  random: make add_timer_randomness() fill the nonblocking pool first
  random: convert DEBUG_ENT to tracepoints
  random: push extra entropy to the output pools
  random: drop trickle mode
  random: adjust the generator polynomials in the mixing function slightly
  random: speed up the fast_mix function by a factor of four
  random: cap the rate which the /dev/urandom pool gets reseeded
  random: optimize the entropy_store structure
  random: optimize spinlock use in add_device_randomness()
  random: fix the tracepoint for get_random_bytes(_arch)
  random: account for entropy loss due to overwrites
  random: allow fractional bits to be tracked
  random: statically compute poolbitshift, poolbytes, poolbits
  random: mix in architectural randomness earlier in extract_buf()
2013-11-16 10:19:15 -08:00
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agp parisc: agp/parisc-agp: allow binding of user memory to the AGP GART 2013-07-31 23:42:00 +02:00
hw_random Nothing really exciting: some groundwork for changing virtio endian, and 2013-11-15 13:28:47 +09:00
ipmi BMC support for PARISC machines 2013-09-05 08:34:32 -07:00
mwave mwave: fix info leak in mwave_ioctl() 2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: synclink_cs: replace sum of bitmasks with OR operation. 2013-07-26 17:59:07 -07:00
tpm tpm: xen-tpmfront: fix missing declaration of xen_domain 2013-10-10 14:38:27 +00:00
xilinx_hwicap char: hwicap: Remove unnecessary dev_set_drvdata() 2013-10-03 16:03:31 -07:00
apm-emulation.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/apm 2012-04-05 17:34:30 -07:00
applicom.c applicom: use correct array offset 2013-03-15 12:23:48 -07:00
applicom.h
bfin-otp.c
bsr.c drivers: clean-up prom.h implicit includes 2013-10-09 20:04:04 -05:00
ds1302.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
ds1620.c ds1620: single_open() leak 2013-05-05 00:11:29 -04:00
dsp56k.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
dtlk.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
efirtc.c rtc: single_open() leaks 2013-05-05 00:12:29 -04:00
generic_nvram.c drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations 2011-07-20 20:47:58 -04:00
genrtc.c rtc: single_open() leaks 2013-05-05 00:12:29 -04:00
hangcheck-timer.c
hpet.c drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processes 2013-11-13 12:09:11 +09:00
i8k.c module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc) 2012-01-13 09:32:20 +10:30
Kconfig drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processes 2013-11-13 12:09:11 +09:00
lp.c Char: lp, protect LPGETSTATUS with port_mutex 2013-05-16 18:08:58 -07:00
Makefile IPMI: Change link order 2012-10-16 18:07:12 -07:00
mbcs.c char: remove use of __devinitconst 2012-11-21 12:55:19 -08:00
mbcs.h
mem.c /dev/oldmem: Remove the interface 2013-07-03 16:08:03 -07:00
misc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-11-13 15:34:18 +09:00
mmtimer.c drivers/char/mmtimer.c: Remove useless kfree 2012-09-26 13:20:40 -07:00
msm_smd_pkt.c drivers/char/msm_smd_pkt.c: don't use IS_ERR() 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
mspec.c char: Use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT 2013-05-21 10:07:54 -07:00
nsc_gpio.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
nvram.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
nwbutton.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
nwbutton.h
nwflash.c Merge branch 'late/fixes' into fixes 2012-10-07 07:22:32 -07:00
pc8736x_gpio.c pc8736x_gpio: use platform_device_unregister in pc8736x_gpio_cleanup() 2012-10-24 15:52:29 -07:00
ppdev.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
ps3flash.c ps3flash: switch to generic_file_llseek_size() 2013-06-29 12:57:33 +04:00
random.c The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in 2013-11-16 10:19:15 -08:00
raw.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
rtc.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
scx200_gpio.c
snsc_event.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
snsc.c various char drivers: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
snsc.h
sonypi.c ACPI: Remove the old /proc/acpi/event interface 2013-07-15 13:56:36 +02:00
tb0219.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
tile-srom.c PTR_RET() is a weird name, and led to some confusing usage. We ended 2013-09-04 17:31:11 -07:00
tlclk.c tlclk: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED 2013-10-16 12:36:10 -07:00
toshiba.c
ttyprintk.c ttyprintk: Fix NULL pointer deref by setting tty_port ops after initializing port 2013-05-21 10:13:23 -07:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c virtio_console: verify if queue is broken after virtqueue_get_buf() 2013-10-29 11:28:18 +10:30