Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752160AbaBMAyJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:54:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:46625 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751050AbaBMAyH (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:54:07 -0500 Message-ID: <52FC17AF.1080508@codeaurora.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:54:07 -0800 From: Laura Abbott User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely , Rob Herring , Arnd Bergmann CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Kumar Gala , Kees Cook Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] arm: Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS References: <1392168805-14200-1-git-send-email-lauraa@codeaurora.org> < 1392168805-14200-3-git-send-email-lauraa@codeaurora.org> <20140212164907.0E958C407C9@trevor.secretlab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20140212164907.0E958C407C9@trevor.secretlab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2/12/2014 8:49 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:33:24 -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: >> The stack canary for ARM is currently the same across reboots >> due to lack of randomness early enough. Add ARCH_WANT_OF_RANDOMNESS >> to allow devices to add whatever randomness they need. >> >> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott > > Do you have a draft patch for a user of this yet? > I had a particular patch in mind but I need to re-work it to work with the upstream tree. I wanted to at least send out the infrastructure to see how open people were to the idea. After reading the comments, I have a couple more ideas of users as well. I'll see if I can work that in for v2. > g. > Thanks, Laura -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/