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Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:22:19 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@clip-os.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@ssi.gouv.fr>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random32: Restore __latent_entropy attribute on
 net_rand_state
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On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Thibaut Sautereau wrote:
> From: Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@ssi.gouv.fr>
> 
> Commit f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt
> and activity") broke compilation and was temporarily fixed by Linus in
> 83bdc7275e62 ("random32: remove net_rand_state from the latent entropy
> gcc plugin") by entirely moving net_rand_state out of the things handled
> by the latent_entropy GCC plugin.
> 
> From what I understand when reading the plugin code, using the
> __latent_entropy attribute on a declaration was the wrong part and
> simply keeping the __latent_entropy attribute on the variable definition
> was the correct fix.

Ah thank you, this is what I tried to figure and failed to! Spender
mentioned that a one-liner was all that was needed to fix this but
never responded to my request asking about it.

Willy