[PATCH] ARM: ep93xx: toss the device ID into the entropy pool
Hartley Sweeten
HartleyS at visionengravers.com
Thu Jun 18 10:15:27 PDT 2015
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 7:48 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> It doesn't hurt to add this random stuff into the entropy pool
> as is custom to do with device-unique numbers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c
> index 5e2151bcc0c5..c393b1b0310d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
> #include <linux/irqchip/arm-vic.h>
> #include <linux/reboot.h>
> #include <linux/usb/ohci_pdriver.h>
> +#include <linux/random.h>
>
> #include <mach/hardware.h>
> #include <linux/platform_data/video-ep93xx.h>
> @@ -862,6 +863,12 @@ static const char __init *ep93xx_get_soc_id(void)
> if (id != id2)
> return "invalid";
>
> + /* Toss the unique ID into the entropy pool */
> + add_device_randomness(&id2, 4);
> + add_device_randomness(&id3, 4);
> + add_device_randomness(&id4, 4);
> + add_device_randomness(&id5, 4);
> +
> snprintf(ep93xx_soc_id, sizeof(ep93xx_soc_id),
> "%08x%08x%08x%08x", id2, id3, id4, id5);
Make sense.
Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
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