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authorStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>2015-05-25 15:08:47 +0200
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-04-11 10:59:06 +0200
commit8ee472b7d2c0f42bc7ee1b8ed86189f14d19d5ec (patch)
tree2d8584f8f1d76781be0a080f931464fa6877061b /include
parentff69231cd728b76d201ca685ccaf5a943de682cb (diff)
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 <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org> CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/random.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 2cdd151be..26796b37e 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ extern void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
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);