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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2019-12-23 11:20:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2020-01-08 00:07:01 +0300 |
| commit | 48446f198f9adcb499b30332488dfd5bc3f176f6 (patch) | |
| tree | df7b7957fd86702618f579ea4ccf02a9190803ca /include/uapi/linux/random.h | |
| parent | 75551dbf112c992bc6c99a972990b3f272247e23 (diff) | |
| download | linux-48446f198f9adcb499b30332488dfd5bc3f176f6.tar.xz | |
random: ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2)
The separate blocking pool is going away. Start by ignoring
GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2).
This should not materially break any API. Any code that worked
without this change should work at least as well with this change.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/705c5a091b63cc5da70c99304bb97e0109be0a26.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/random.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/random.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/random.h b/include/uapi/linux/random.h index c092d20088d3..dcc1b3e6106f 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/random.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/random.h @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct rand_pool_info { * Flags for getrandom(2) * * GRND_NONBLOCK Don't block and return EAGAIN instead - * GRND_RANDOM Use the /dev/random pool instead of /dev/urandom + * GRND_RANDOM No effect * GRND_INSECURE Return non-cryptographic random bytes */ #define GRND_NONBLOCK 0x0001 |