random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking_pool
The added API calls provide a synchronous function call
get_blocking_random_bytes where the caller is blocked until
the nonblocking_pool is initialized.
CC: Andreas Steffen <[email protected]>
CC: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
CC: Sandy Harris <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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 @@
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_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);
