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| author | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2014-10-04 18:55:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2014-10-04 18:55:32 +0200 |
| commit | b277da0a8a594308e17881f4926879bd5fca2a2d (patch) | |
| tree | 1af7df6ade218a4b246dd43a0771701a672c6cb8 /drivers/block/zram | |
| parent | Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ker... (diff) | |
| download | linux-b277da0a8a594308e17881f4926879bd5fca2a2d.tar.xz linux-b277da0a8a594308e17881f4926879bd5fca2a2d.zip | |
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/zram')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c index dfa4024c448a..6dd2cef5b865 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -925,6 +925,7 @@ static int create_device(struct zram *zram, int device_id) set_capacity(zram->disk, 0); /* zram devices sort of resembles non-rotational disks */ queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, zram->disk->queue); + queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, zram->disk->queue); /* * To ensure that we always get PAGE_SIZE aligned * and n*PAGE_SIZED sized I/O requests. |