virtio: rng: add derating factor for use by hwrng core
authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:35:41 +0000 (00:05 +0530)
committerAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:56:01 +0000 (10:26 +0530)
commit34679ec7a0c45da8161507e1f2e1f72749dfd85c
tree32d2bbfdfbf2104e2eff82086afde2fcec235cf0
parentc9d26423e56ce1ab4d786f92aebecf859d419293
virtio: rng: add derating factor for use by hwrng core

The khwrngd thread is started when a hwrng device of sufficient
quality is registered.  The virtio-rng device is backed by the
hypervisor, and we trust the hypervisor to provide real entropy.

A malicious or badly-implemented hypervisor is a scenario that's
irrelevant -- such a setup is bound to cause all sorts of badness, and a
compromised hwrng is the least of the user's worries.

Given this, we might as well assume that the quality of randomness we
receive is perfectly trustworthy.  Hence, we use 100% for the factor,
indicating maximum confidence in the source.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.c