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hwrng: chaoskey - drop workaround for old hwrng core limitation

The hwrng core used to mask 'quality' with 1023; that has been removed
in commit 506bf0c0464ace57169aadcf02ae397999c57bdd ("hwrng: core - allow
perfect entropy from hardware devices"), so we can now just set quality
to 1024.

Signed-off-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Julien Cristau 8 年之前
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共有 1 個文件被更改,包括 1 次插入13 次删除
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      drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c

+ 1 - 13
drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c

@@ -215,19 +215,7 @@ static int chaoskey_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
 
 	dev->hwrng.name = dev->name ? dev->name : chaoskey_driver.name;
 	dev->hwrng.read = chaoskey_rng_read;
-
-	/* Set the 'quality' metric.  Quality is measured in units of
-	 * 1/1024's of a bit ("mills"). This should be set to 1024,
-	 * but there is a bug in the hwrng core which masks it with
-	 * 1023.
-	 *
-	 * The patch that has been merged to the crypto development
-	 * tree for that bug limits the value to 1024 at most, so by
-	 * setting this to 1024 + 1023, we get 1023 before the fix is
-	 * merged and 1024 afterwards. We'll patch this driver once
-	 * both bits of code are in the same tree.
-	 */
-	dev->hwrng.quality = 1024 + 1023;
+	dev->hwrng.quality = 1024;
 
 	dev->hwrng_registered = (hwrng_register(&dev->hwrng) == 0);
 	if (!dev->hwrng_registered)