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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] random: fix crng_ready() test
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Am Freitag, 13. April 2018, 14:53:13 CEST schrieb Theodore Y. Ts'o:

Hi Theodore,
>
> This was always the original design intent, but I screwed up and no
> one noticed until Jann reached out to be and said, "Hey.... this
> doesn't seem to make much sense".

I disagree, but I guess you would have expected that. But this is not the
issue.

What I would like to point out that more and more folks change to
getrandom(2). As this call will now unblock much later in the boot cycle,
these systems see a significant departure from the current system behavior.

E.g. an sshd using getrandom(2) would be ready shortly after the boot finishes
as of now. Now it can be a matter minutes before it responds. Thus, is such
change in the kernel behavior something for stable?

Ciao
Stephan


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