• Theodore Y. Ts'o's avatar
    [PATCH] /dev/random: Remove RNDGETPOOL ioctl · a18b8188
    Theodore Y. Ts'o authored
    Recently, someone has kvetched that RNDGETPOOL is a "security
    vulnerability".  Never mind that it is superuser only, and with superuser
    privs you could load a nasty kernel module, or read the entropy pool out of
    /dev/mem directly, but they are nevertheless still spreading FUD.
    
    In any case, no one is using it (it was there for debugging purposes only),
    so we can remove it as dead code.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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