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Revision 829d680e82a961c5370d9636130b43009ac36eb8 authored by Jason A. Donenfeld on 13 July 2022, 15:11:15 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 16 July 2022, 17:42:12 UTC
Currently the jitter mechanism will require two timer ticks per
iteration, and it requires N iterations per bit. This N is determined
with a small measurement, and if it's too big, it won't waste time with
jitter entropy because it'd take too long or not have sufficient entropy
anyway.

With the current max N of 32, there are large timeouts on systems with a
small CONFIG_HZ. Rather than set that maximum to 32, instead choose a
factor of CONFIG_HZ. In this case, 1/30 seems to yield sane values for
different configurations of CONFIG_HZ.

Reported-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Fixes: 78c768e619fb ("random: vary jitter iterations based on cycle counter speed")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 829d680e82a961c5370d9636130b43009ac36eb8 authored by Jason A. Donenfeld on 13 July 2022, 15:11:15 UTC
random: cap jitter samples per bit to factor of HZ
Tip revision: 829d680
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