Re: Linux 5.3-rc8
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2019-09-17 23:08:29
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- 2019-09-18 · Re: Linux 5.3-rc8 · Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:52 PM Matthew Garrett [off-list ref] wrote:
getrandom() will never "consume entropy" in a way that will block any users of getrandom().
Yes, this is true for any common and sane use.
And by that I just mean that we do have GRND_RANDOM, which currently
does exactly that entropy consumption.
But it only consumes it for other GRND_RANDOM users - of which there
are approximately zero, because nobody wants that rats nest.
Linus