Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 2 authors, 2019-09-24

Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Rework random blocking

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-09-20 14:46:34
Also in: linux-ext4, linux-man, lkml

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:36 AM Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref] wrote:
This makes two major semantic changes to Linux's random APIs:
Hmm.  I have at least two issues in here that need fixing:

 - getrandom() can warn.  Whoops.

 - Repeatedly calling getentropy in GRND_INSECURE mode will interfere
will CRNG init.

v3 will fix these issues.
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