[PATCH] random: accounting and sleeping fixes
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> This fixes several calculation errors and races in entropy accounting that would allow /dev/random output to greatly exceed the measured entropy collection. This doesn't include any of my more controversial hardening, it just makes it behave as intended. It also corrects the operation of the 'catastrophic reseeding' feature so that it will actually prevent the state extension attack it's meant to guard against. And finally, it also fixes a couple missed wake-up and accidental sleep bugs uncovered by the above fixes. Debug instrumentation has been improved to help verify correctness.
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