From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E39F0C4CEC7 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 07:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C381620873 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 07:01:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726492AbfIOHBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:01:22 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:45081 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725773AbfIOHBV (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:01:21 -0400 Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x8F713NQ021628; Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:01:03 +0200 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:01:03 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Lennart Poettering Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Andreas Dilger , Jan Kara , Ray Strode , William Jon McCann , zhangjs , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: Linux 5.3-rc8 Message-ID: <20190915070103.GC20811@1wt.eu> References: <20190911173624.GI2740@mit.edu> <20190912034421.GA2085@darwi-home-pc> <20190912082530.GA27365@mit.edu> <20190914150206.GA2270@darwi-home-pc> <214fed0e-6659-def9-b5f8-a9d7a8cb72af@gmail.com> <20190915065655.GB29681@gardel-login> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190915065655.GB29681@gardel-login> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 08:56:55AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > There's benefit in being able to wait until the pool is initialized > before we update the random seed stored on disk with a new one, And what exactly makes you think that waiting with arms crossed not doing anything else has any chance to make the situation change if you already had no such entropy available when reaching that first call, especially during early boot ? Willy