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SubjectRe: [PATCH] random: Don't freeze in add_hwgenerator_randomness() if stopping kthread
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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