drivers/char/random.c:write_pool() cond_resched() needed

Reduce latency for large writes to /dev/[u]random

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index c511a83..f43c89f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1039,6 +1039,7 @@ write_pool(struct entropy_store *r, const char __user *buffer, size_t count)
                p += bytes;
 
                add_entropy_words(r, buf, (bytes + 3) / 4);
+               cond_resched();
        }
 
        return 0;