[PATCH] random: remove CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM and "nordrand"

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Wed Jul 6 22:23:31 AEST 2022


On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:11:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> What I'm wondering is if we shouldn't be simply instrument *every*
> invocation, and set the trust to zero if we ever trip it.

I guess you can add some logic to rdrand_long() to sanity-check what it
returns...

But would that be worth the effort?

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    Boris.

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