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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-05-11 23:25:20 -0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-05-11 23:25:20 -0400
commit7a5091d58419b4e5222abce58a40c072786ea1d6 (patch)
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parentd6d211db37e75de2ddc3a4f979038c40df7cc79c (diff)
x86, rdrand: When nordrand is specified, disable RDSEED as well
One can logically expect that when the user has specified "nordrand", the user doesn't want any use of the CPU random number generator, neither RDRAND nor RDSEED, so disable both. Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/21542339.0lFnPSyGRS@myon.chronox.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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2218 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions 2218 noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions
2219 with UP alternatives 2219 with UP alternatives
2220 2220
2221 nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND 2221 nordrand [X86] Disable kernel use of the RDRAND and
2222 instruction even if it is supported by the 2222 RDSEED instructions even if they are supported
2223 processor. RDRAND is still available to user 2223 by the processor. RDRAND and RDSEED are still
2224 space applications. 2224 available to user space applications.
2225 2225
2226 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap 2226 noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restores original swap
2227 space. 2227 space.