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usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver
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Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the
/dev/random driver to help seed its pools.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Theodore Ts'o committed Jul 15, 2012
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#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/random.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
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/* Tell the world! */
announce_device(udev);

if (udev->serial)
add_device_randomness(udev->serial, strlen(udev->serial));
if (udev->product)
add_device_randomness(udev->product, strlen(udev->product));
if (udev->manufacturer)
add_device_randomness(udev->manufacturer,
strlen(udev->manufacturer));

device_enable_async_suspend(&udev->dev);

/*
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