Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jason A. Donenfeld" <> | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:40:43 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] random: block in /dev/urandom |
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Hi Linus,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:27 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 8:58 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > > > This patch (or a later version of it) made it into mainline and causes a > > large number of qemu boot test failures for various architectures (arm, > > m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I observed). Common > > denominator is that boot hangs at "Saving random seed:". A sample bisect > > log is attached. Reverting this patch fixes the problem. > > Ok, it was worth trying, but yeah, it clearly causes problems for > various platforms that can't do jitter entropy and have nothing else > happening either. > > Will revert.
Shucks. I wish I had a good argument here, but I suppose the most I can say is maybe we'll be able to revisit it some time off. I'll send you the revert patch in a minute.
Jason
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