From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>,
"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
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Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
bart.vanassche@sandisk.com,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] Add the latent_entropy gcc plugin
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 00:39:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160531003955.032d11cad95c4439328b0128@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJ4iOHw+9khys3HVKAJH6q4Vu+8aSabycYWUCdK9GonKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 24 May 2016 19:55:17 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> Yeah, answering "how random is this?" is not easy, but that's not what
> I meant. I'm more curious about specific build configs or hardware
> where calling get_random_int() early enough would always produce the
> same value (or the same value across all threads, etc), and in these
> cases, the new entropy should be visible when using the latent entropy
> plugin.
I booted minimal configs (not allnoconfig because it can't boot in qemu)
many times. I couldn't produce same values.
--
Emese
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-30 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 22:14 [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce the latent_entropy gcc plugin Emese Revfy
2016-05-23 22:15 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] Add " Emese Revfy
2016-05-24 17:32 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-24 21:23 ` Emese Revfy
2016-05-24 23:40 ` PaX Team
2016-05-25 2:55 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-30 22:39 ` Emese Revfy [this message]
2016-05-23 22:16 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] Mark functions with the latent_entropy attribute Emese Revfy
2016-05-24 17:16 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-24 20:45 ` Emese Revfy
2016-05-24 20:55 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-23 22:17 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] Add the extra_latent_entropy kernel parameter Emese Revfy
2016-05-24 17:09 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-24 20:29 ` Emese Revfy
2016-05-29 17:59 [PATCH v1 1/3] Add the latent_entropy gcc plugin Hector Martin
2016-05-30 2:16 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-30 3:46 ` Hector Martin "marcan"
2016-05-30 15:40 ` Kees Cook
2016-05-30 20:24 ` Hector Martin "marcan"
2016-05-31 17:25 ` Kees Cook
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