git: 3bca93e04275 - main - rc.d/random: add support for zero harvest_mask
Eugene Grosbein
eugen at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 26 11:41:04 UTC 2021
The branch main has been updated by eugen:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3bca93e04275045c3d868d09a57f9201999908f0
commit 3bca93e04275045c3d868d09a57f9201999908f0
Author: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-26 11:30:24 +0000
Commit: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-05-26 11:30:24 +0000
rc.d/random: add support for zero harvest_mask
Replace the check for zero harvest_mask with new check for empty string.
This allows one to specify harvest_mask="0" that disables harversting
entropy from all but "pure" sources. Exact bit values for "pure" sources
differ for stable/12 and later branches, so it is handy to use zero.
The check for zero pre-dates introduction of "pure" non-maskable sources
Use empty string to disable altering sysctl kern.random.harvest.mask.
Note that notion of "pure" random sources is not documented in user level
manual pages yet. Still, it helps to extend battery life for hardware
with embedded "Intel Secure Key RNG" by disabling all other sources.
Note that no defaults changed and default behaviour is not affected.
Reported by: Dmitry Luhtionov
---
libexec/rc/rc.d/random | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libexec/rc/rc.d/random b/libexec/rc/rc.d/random
index d275284e13d6..fda3c8a71fae 100755
--- a/libexec/rc/rc.d/random
+++ b/libexec/rc/rc.d/random
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ feed_dev_random()
random_start()
{
- if [ ${harvest_mask} -gt 0 ]; then
+ if [ -n "${harvest_mask}" ]; then
echo -n 'Setting up harvesting: '
${SYSCTL} kern.random.harvest.mask=${harvest_mask} > /dev/null
${SYSCTL_N} kern.random.harvest.mask_symbolic
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