| commit | 644008df899ec252e78db28c1b6d6b86779aada8 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | Sun Nov 03 16:40:53 2013 -0500 |
| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | Sun Nov 03 18:20:05 2013 -0500 |
| tree | 4d33e8e3bb0d9c487bc337e2b9c44387bc847a71 | |
| parent | ae9ecd92ddabc250817baa7eb401df3cfbd4c2da [diff] |
random: initialize the last_time field in struct timer_rand_state Since we initialize jiffies to wrap five minutes before boot (see INITIAL_JIFFIES defined in include/linux/jiffies.h) it's important to make sure the last_time field is initialized to INITIAL_JIFFIES. Otherwise, the entropy estimator will overestimate the amount of entropy resulting from the first call to add_timer_randomness(), generally by about 8 bits. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>