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    utsname: contribute changes to RNG · 37608ba3
    Jason A. Donenfeld authored
    On some small machines with little entropy, a quasi-unique hostname is
    sometimes a relevant factor. I've seen, for example, 8 character
    alpha-numeric serial numbers. In addition, the time at which the hostname
    is set is usually a decent measurement of how long early boot took. So,
    call add_device_randomness() on new hostnames, which feeds its arguments
    to the RNG in addition to a fresh cycle counter.
    
    Low cost hooks like this never hurt and can only ever help, and since
    this costs basically nothing for an operation that is never a fast path,
    this is an overall easy win.
    
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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