Re: [PATCH] crypto: change hwrng device default permissions to 0444

2017-07-13 Thread PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
Hi Herbert, On 12 July 2017 at 15:43, Herbert Xu wrote: > Hmm, one usage scenario for /dev/hwrng is to feed rngd which then > feeds into /dev/random. In that case it may not be desirable to > allow arbitrary access to hwrgn since it may cause the rate of > entropy

Re: [PATCH] crypto: change hwrng device default permissions to 0444

2017-07-13 Thread Harald Freudenberger
On 07/12/2017 12:13 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Harald Freudenberger wrote: >> Currently /dev/hwrng uses default device node permissions >> which is 0600. So by default the device node is not accessible >> by an ordinary user. Some distros do rewrite the

Re: [PATCH] crypto: change hwrng device default permissions to 0444

2017-07-12 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:37:59PM +0200, Harald Freudenberger wrote: > Currently /dev/hwrng uses default device node permissions > which is 0600. So by default the device node is not accessible > by an ordinary user. Some distros do rewrite the device node > permissions via udev rule, others

[PATCH] crypto: change hwrng device default permissions to 0444

2017-07-03 Thread Harald Freudenberger
Currently /dev/hwrng uses default device node permissions which is 0600. So by default the device node is not accessible by an ordinary user. Some distros do rewrite the device node permissions via udev rule, others don't. This patch provides 0444 as the new mode value and so makes the device node