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Re: [v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy

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Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote:
> The ATH9K driver implements an RNG which is completely bypassing the
> standard Linux HW generator logic.
> 
> The RNG may or may not deliver entropy. Considering the conservative
> approach in treating entropy with respect to non-auditable sources, this
> patch changes the delivered entropy value to zero. The RNG still feeds
> data into the input_pool but it is assumed to have no entropy.
> 
> When the ATH9K RNG changes to use the HW RNG framework, it may re-enable
> the entropy estimation considering that a user can change that value at
> boot and runtime.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>

Based on the discussion I'm dropping this patch. But the discussion was
hard to follow so please let me know if I misunderstood.

Patch set to Rejected.

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Re: [v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> - 2016-09-27 16:50 +0200
  Re: [v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2016-09-27 17:20 +0200

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