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| author | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2014-10-04 10:55:32 -0600 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2014-10-04 10:55:32 -0600 |
| commit | b277da0a8a594308e17881f4926879bd5fca2a2d (patch) | |
| tree | 1af7df6ade218a4b246dd43a0771701a672c6cb8 /drivers/block/nbd.c | |
| parent | 7b7b7f7e024460cb7d77f8f96b6eb1a8803f94d9 (diff) | |
block: disable entropy contributions for nonrot devices
Clear QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM in all block drivers that set
QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT.
Historically, all block devices have automatically made entropy
contributions. But as previously stated in commit e2e1a148 ("block: add
sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions"):
- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
should contribute to the random pool in the first place.
- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.
There are more reliable sources for randomness than non-rotational block
devices. From a security perspective it is better to err on the side of
caution than to allow entropy contributions from unreliable "random"
sources.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/nbd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/nbd.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index fb31b8ee4372..4bc2a5cb9935 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void) * Tell the block layer that we are not a rotational device */ queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, disk->queue); + queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, disk->queue); disk->queue->limits.discard_granularity = 512; disk->queue->limits.max_discard_sectors = UINT_MAX; disk->queue->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0; |