diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 2a41b21623ae..d20ba1b104ca 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1277,6 +1277,7 @@ void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags)
 
 	fast_mix(fast_pool);
 	add_interrupt_bench(cycles);
+	this_cpu_add(net_rand_state.s1, fast_pool->pool[cycles & 3]);
 
 	if (unlikely(crng_init == 0)) {
 		if ((fast_pool->count >= 64) &&
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 45e1f8fa742b..39aaa1f78f9d 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/once.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
 
 #include <uapi/linux/random.h>
 
@@ -119,6 +120,8 @@ struct rnd_state {
 	__u32 s1, s2, s3, s4;
 };
 
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state) __latent_entropy;
+
 u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
 void prandom_bytes_state(struct rnd_state *state, void *buf, size_t nbytes);
 void prandom_seed_full_state(struct rnd_state __percpu *pcpu_state);
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index df1ff803acc4..026ac01af9da 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched/debug.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -1742,6 +1743,13 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
 	scheduler_tick();
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS))
 		run_posix_cpu_timers();
+
+	/* The current CPU might make use of net randoms without receiving IRQs
+	 * to renew them often enough. Let's update the net_rand_state from a
+	 * non-constant value that's not affine to the number of calls to make
+	 * sure it's updated when there's some activity (we don't care in idle).
+	 */
+	this_cpu_add(net_rand_state.s1, rol32(jiffies, 24) + user_tick);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c
index 763b920a6206..c4d317be2997 100644
--- a/lib/random32.c
+++ b/lib/random32.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static inline void prandom_state_selftest(void)
 }
 #endif
 
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state) __latent_entropy;
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state) __latent_entropy;
 
 /**
  *	prandom_u32_state - seeded pseudo-random number generator.