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authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2014-10-04 10:55:32 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-10-04 10:55:32 -0600
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block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices
Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT. Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy contributions. But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"): - On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they should contribute to the random pool in the first place. - Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead. There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block devices. From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random" sources. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/null_blk.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
index a3b042c4d448..b0d94b6973ab 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
@@ -507,6 +507,7 @@ static int null_add_dev(void)
nullb->q->queuedata = nullb;
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, nullb->q);
+ queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, nullb->q);
disk = nullb->disk = alloc_disk_node(1, home_node);
if (!disk)