Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the random tree with the net-next tree

From: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:55:29 +0100

Hi Stephen,

On 11/12/2013 05:55 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the random tree got a conflict in
> drivers/char/random.c between commit 0244ad004a54 ("random32: add
> prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes
> initialized") from the net-next tree and commit 301f0595c0e7 ("random:
> printk notifications for urandom pool initialization") from the random
> tree.
>
> I fixed it up (probably not properly - see below) and can carry the fix
> as necessary (no action is required).

As per Hannes' suggestion, the result should look like (see cover
letter in [1]):

if (r->entropy_total > 128) {
	r->initialized = 1;
	r->entropy_total = 0;
	if (r == &nonblocking_pool) {
		prandom_reseed_late();
		pr_notice("random: %s pool is initialized\n",
			  r->name);
	}
}

Cheers,

Daniel

  [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/290303