7a5091d58419b4e5222abce58a40c072786ea1d6 - linux

commit	7a5091d58419b4e5222abce58a40c072786ea1d6	[log] [tgz]
author	H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>	Sun May 11 20:25:20 2014 -0700
committer	H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>	Sun May 11 20:25:20 2014 -0700
tree	5539029ddca915b6c5d1e4e688e2943393c3f811
parent	d6d211db37e75de2ddc3a4f979038c40df7cc79c [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>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt[diff]
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c[diff]

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