From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>, Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>, William Jon McCann <mccann@jhu.edu>, "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>, zhangjs <zachary@baishancloud.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux 5.3-rc8 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:41:36 -0700 Message-ID: <CAHk-=whfPwei+yf9vBgfSuG5HDtiYmt3nOu9Js+vkTYSrMf2ow@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <BEF07E89-E36D-480F-AB1E-25C80C9DABE7@srcf.ucam.org> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 6:24 PM Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > > Exactly the scenario where you want getrandom() to block, yes. It *would* block. Just not forever. And btw, the whole "generate key at boot when nothing else is going on" is already broken, so presumably nobody actually does it. See why I'm saying "hypothetical"? You're doing it again. > >Then you have to ignore the big warning too. > > The big warning that's only printed in dmesg? Well, the patch actually made getrandom() return en error too, but you seem more interested in the hypotheticals than in arguing actualities. Linus
next prev parent reply index Thread overview: 211+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top [not found] <CAHk-=whBQ+6c-h+htiv6pp8ndtv97+45AH9WvdZougDRM6M4VQ@mail.gmail.com> 2019-09-10 4:21 ` Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-10 11:33 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-10 12:21 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-10 17:33 ` Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-10 17:47 ` Reindl Harald 2019-09-10 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-11 16:07 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o 2019-09-11 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-11 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-11 17:36 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o 2019-09-12 3:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-12 8:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o 2019-09-12 11:34 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-12 11:58 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-14 12:25 ` [PATCH RFC] random: getrandom(2): don't block on non-initialized entropy pool Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-14 14:08 ` Alexander E. Patrakov 2019-09-15 5:22 ` [PATCH RFC v2] random: optionally block in getrandom(2) when the CRNG is uninitialized Theodore Y. Ts'o 2019-09-15 8:17 ` [PATCH RFC v3] random: getrandom(2): optionally block when " Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-15 8:59 ` Lennart Poettering 2019-09-15 9:30 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 10:02 ` Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-15 10:40 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 10:55 ` Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-15 11:17 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 17:32 ` [PATCH RFC v2] random: optionally block in getrandom(2) when the " Linus Torvalds 2019-09-15 18:32 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 18:36 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-15 19:18 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-15 19:54 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-15 18:59 ` Linus Torvalds 2019-09-15 19:12 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-16 2:45 ` Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-16 18:08 ` Lennart Poettering 2019-09-16 19:16 ` Willy Tarreau 2019-09-18 21:15 ` [PATCH RFC v4 0/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and introduce getrandom2() Ahmed S. Darwish 2019-09-18 21:17 ` [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] " Ahmed S. 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