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authorTheodore Ts'o2012-07-04 11:22:20 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o2012-07-14 20:17:45 -0400
commitb04b3156a20d395a7faa8eed98698d1e17a36000 (patch)
tree8d4d79420e21f73ea014bc0a7c5d757db6b77319
parenta2080a67abe9e314f9e9c2cc3a4a176e8a8f8793 (diff)
usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver
Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/hub.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 25a7422ee657..7f380ff1f786 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
@@ -2173,6 +2174,14 @@ int usb_new_device(struct usb_device *udev)
/* Tell the world! */
announce_device(udev);
+ if (udev->serial)
+ add_device_randomness(udev->serial, strlen(udev->serial));
+ if (udev->product)
+ add_device_randomness(udev->product, strlen(udev->product));
+ if (udev->manufacturer)
+ add_device_randomness(udev->manufacturer,
+ strlen(udev->manufacturer));
+
device_enable_async_suspend(&udev->dev);
/*