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-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/random.c | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/random.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 8b8c46b..159d070 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1245,6 +1245,18 @@ void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes) EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_bytes); /* + * Equivalent function to get_random_bytes with the difference that this + * function blocks the request until the nonblocking_pool is initialized. + */ +void get_blocking_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes) +{ + if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0)) + wait_event(urandom_init_wait, nonblocking_pool.initialized); + extract_entropy(&nonblocking_pool, buf, nbytes, 0, 0); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_blocking_random_bytes); + +/* * This function will use the architecture-specific hardware random * number generator if it is available. The arch-specific hw RNG will * almost certainly be faster than what we can do in software, but it diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h index b05856e..796267d 100644 --- a/include/linux/random.h +++ b/include/linux/random.h @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ extern void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code, extern void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags); extern void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes); +extern void get_blocking_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes); extern void get_random_bytes_arch(void *buf, int nbytes); void generate_random_uuid(unsigned char uuid_out[16]); extern int random_int_secret_init(void); |