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Linus Torvalds 3f2dc2798b Merge branch 'entropy'
Merge active entropy generation updates.

This is admittedly partly "for discussion".  We need to have a way
forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for
more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is
entirely idle just waiting for something to happen.

While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with
GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when
they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up
being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of
confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want
to block for sufficient amounts of entropy.

The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy
to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing.  This
is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU
cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of
reasonably complex loads.

We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this
should be at least a reasonable starting point.

As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern
improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external
entropy.

* getrandom() active entropy waiting:
  Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug""
  random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
2019-09-29 19:25:39 -07:00
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Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile ext4: add basic fs-verity support 2019-08-12 19:33:50 -07:00
acl.c ext4: compare old and new mode before setting update_mode flag 2018-12-10 00:22:38 -05:00
acl.h ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups 2017-12-17 22:00:59 -05:00
balloc.c ext4: clean up kerneldoc warnigns when building with W=1 2019-06-19 16:30:03 -04:00
bitmap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
block_validity.c ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity 2019-08-28 11:13:24 -04:00
dir.c ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag 2019-09-03 01:43:17 -04:00
ext4.h Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information 2019-09-21 13:37:39 -07:00
ext4_extents.h ext4: adjust reserved cluster count when removing extents 2018-10-01 14:25:08 -04:00
ext4_jbd2.c ext4: shutdown should not prevent get_write_access 2018-02-18 22:07:36 -05:00
ext4_jbd2.h ext4: use jbd2_inode dirty range scoping 2019-06-20 17:26:26 -04:00
extents.c ext4: fix warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio 2019-08-22 22:53:46 -04:00
extents_status.c ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses 2019-08-28 11:19:23 -04:00
extents_status.h ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses 2019-08-28 11:19:23 -04:00
file.c Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information 2019-09-21 13:37:39 -07:00
fsmap.c ext4: fix miscellaneous sparse warnings 2019-05-12 04:49:47 -04:00
fsmap.h ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups 2017-12-17 22:00:59 -05:00
fsync.c Revert "ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal" 2019-01-31 23:41:11 -05:00
hash.c ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag 2019-09-03 01:43:17 -04:00
ialloc.c ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups 2019-04-25 14:12:08 -04:00
indirect.c ext4: clean up kerneldoc warnigns when building with W=1 2019-06-19 16:30:03 -04:00
inline.c ext4: set error return correctly when ext4_htree_store_dirent fails 2019-08-12 14:29:38 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'entropy' 2019-09-29 19:25:39 -07:00
ioctl.c Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information 2019-09-21 13:37:39 -07:00
mballoc.c ext4: clean up kerneldoc warnigns when building with W=1 2019-06-19 16:30:03 -04:00
mballoc.h ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups 2017-12-17 22:00:59 -05:00
migrate.c ext4: clean up indentation issues, remove extraneous tabs 2018-12-04 00:16:44 -05:00
mmp.c ext4: don't mark mmp buffer head dirty 2018-09-15 17:11:25 -04:00
move_extent.c ext4: use jbd2_inode dirty range scoping 2019-06-20 17:26:26 -04:00
namei.c ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag 2019-09-03 01:43:17 -04:00
page-io.c for-linus-20190715 2019-07-15 21:20:52 -07:00
readpage.c ext4: add fs-verity read support 2019-08-12 19:33:51 -07:00
resize.c Add as a feature case-insensitive directories (the casefold feature) 2019-05-07 21:12:44 -07:00
super.c Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information 2019-09-21 13:37:39 -07:00
symlink.c ext4: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink() 2018-01-11 22:10:40 -05:00
sysfs.c ext4: add basic fs-verity support 2019-08-12 19:33:50 -07:00
truncate.h ext4: handle layout changes to pinned DAX mappings 2018-07-29 17:00:22 -04:00
verity.c ext4: add basic fs-verity support 2019-08-12 19:33:50 -07:00
xattr.c ext4: ignore e_value_offs for xattrs with value-in-ea-inode 2019-04-10 00:37:36 -04:00
xattr.h ext4: add extra checks to ext4_xattr_block_get() 2018-03-30 20:04:11 -04:00
xattr_security.c ext4: use XATTR_CREATE in ext4_initxattrs() 2018-05-10 11:52:14 -04:00
xattr_trusted.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
xattr_user.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00