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Android: Set CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y

Wpa_supplicant's random pool is not necessary on Android. Randomness
is already provided by the entropymixer service which ensures
sufficient entropy is maintained across reboots. Commit b410eb1913
'Initialize /dev/urandom earlier in boot' seeds /dev/urandom with
that entropy before either wpa_supplicant or hostapd are run.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Jeff Vander Stoep 7 years ago
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3 changed files with 14 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 7 0
      hostapd/android.config
  2. 0 1
      hostapd/hostapd.android.rc
  3. 7 1
      wpa_supplicant/android.config

+ 7 - 0
hostapd/android.config

@@ -203,3 +203,10 @@ CONFIG_WPA_CLI_EDIT=y
 # Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE)
 # Experimental implementation of draft-harkins-owe-07.txt
 #CONFIG_OWE=y
+
+# Wpa_supplicant's random pool is not necessary on Android. Randomness is
+# already provided by the entropymixer service which ensures sufficient
+# entropy is maintained across reboots. Commit b410eb1913 'Initialize
+# /dev/urandom earlier in boot' seeds /dev/urandom with that entropy before
+# either wpa_supplicant or hostapd are run.
+CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y

+ 0 - 1
hostapd/hostapd.android.rc

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ on post-fs-data
     mkdir /data/misc/wifi/hostapd 0770 wifi wifi
 
 service hostapd /vendor/bin/hostapd \
-        -e /data/misc/wifi/entropy.bin \
         /data/misc/wifi/hostapd.conf
     class main
     user wifi

+ 7 - 1
wpa_supplicant/android.config

@@ -442,7 +442,13 @@ CONFIG_ANDROID_LOG=y
 # disabled. This will save some in binary size and CPU use. However, this
 # should only be considered for builds that are known to be used on devices
 # that meet the requirements described above.
-#CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y
+
+# Wpa_supplicant's random pool is not necessary on Android. Randomness is
+# already provided by the entropymixer service which ensures sufficient
+# entropy is maintained across reboots. Commit b410eb1913 'Initialize
+# /dev/urandom earlier in boot' seeds /dev/urandom with that entropy before
+# either wpa_supplicant or hostapd are run.
+CONFIG_NO_RANDOM_POOL=y
 
 # IEEE 802.11n (High Throughput) support (mainly for AP mode)
 CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y