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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-07-20 13:15:20 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-15 08:10:30 -0700
commitaf2eb889f75b4206de39ea86f4f154498a9327f3 (patch)
treeec34d87bf67daed8aa4906804a5c8f9e4a48e86c /drivers/firmware
parent73e62ae900d632d1bee9ab96c22508f8947da91a (diff)
dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index 153980be4ee6..b298158cb922 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;
}