Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2019 23:09:45 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: Don't freeze in add_hwgenerator_randomness() if stopping kthread |
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 08:56:41AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:01:20AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote: > > > > If a reader (user space) task is frozen then it is no longer waiting > > on this waitqueue - at least if I understand correctly how the freezer > > works for user space tasks, that is by interrupting waits via a fake > > signal. > > At this point I'm just going to revert the whole thing and we can > sort it out in the next development cycle.
Thanks, I hadn't planned on taking any /dev/random changes this cycle because it had gotten too late and the ext4 tree had gotten unusually busy.
- Ted
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