[PATCH] um: seed rng using host OS rng
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Jul 13 00:03:31 PDT 2022
On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 07:58 +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
>
> IIRC UML RNG device reads directly from host.
Yes, but that's a /dev/hwrng device, so you still need some userspace to
feed entropy from that into /dev/random.
> If you are using UMLs own /dev/random you are effectively using the host
> one.
> So unless I am mistaken, you need extra randomness only if you do not
> have UMLs /dev/random compiled in.
No, neither of those is true.
johannes
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