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dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver

Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tony Luck 13 years ago
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      drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c

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drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 #include <asm/dmi.h>
 
 /*
@@ -111,6 +112,8 @@ static int __init dmi_walk_early(void (*decode)(const struct dmi_header *,
 
 	dmi_table(buf, dmi_len, dmi_num, decode, NULL);
 
+	add_device_randomness(buf, dmi_len);
+
 	dmi_iounmap(buf, dmi_len);
 	return 0;
 }