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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: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.