Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:43:21 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] avoid entropy starvation due to stack protection |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:33:04 +0100 Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote:
> Some time ago, I noticed the fact that for every newly > executed process, the function create_elf_tables requests 16 bytes of > randomness from get_random_bytes. This is easily visible when calling > > while [ 1 ] > do > cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > sleep 1 > done
Please see http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/binfmt_elfc-use-get_random_int-to-fix-entropy-depleting.patch
That patch is about one week from a mainline merge, btw.
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