[PATCH] um: seed rng using host OS rng

[Anton Ivanov]

On 13/07/2022 08:03, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

OK, Cool.

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