Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot

From	Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot
Date	2018-05-09 18:40 +0200
Message-ID	<vNAid-5T2-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 13:23 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> And sd_id128_randomize() is called from all over the place.  I haven't
> bothered looking at all the call sites, but would be surprised if not at
> least one of them is unconditionally called at boot.
> 
> If I am correct, then I guess this is a systemd bug?

It might be (I took the liberty to add your findings to https://github.com/sys
temd/systemd/issues/4167).

In our case, as far as I can tell since we're still in the initramfs, systemd
is not yet PID1, but we do use udev which might have the same issue.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt (missing Kaby Lake firmware?) Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-03 04:10 +0200
  Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-03 06:50 +0200
  Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-03 07:30 +0200
  Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-03 07:40 +0200
    Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-04 01:40 +0200
    Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-04 02:00 +0200
  Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-05 21:10 +0200
    Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-06 02:40 +0200
      Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-06 05:10 +0200
    Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-06 17:30 +0200
      Bug#897572: linux-image-4.16.0-1-amd64 breaks plymouth LUKS prompt Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-06 19:50 +0200
  Bug#897572: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-06 03:10 +0200
    Bug#897572: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16 at46 <at46n@t-online.de> - 2018-05-06 08:50 +0200
      Bug#897572: plymouth: long delay before splashscreen with kernel 4.16 Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-07 02:50 +0200
  Bug#897572:  Eric Mill <eric@konklone.com> - 2018-05-06 19:30 +0200
  Bug#897572: [PATCH] Revert "random: fix crng_ready() test" Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-07 05:10 +0200
    Bug#897572: [PATCH] Revert "random: fix crng_ready() test" "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-05-07 06:20 +0200
  Bug#897572: [PATCH] Revert "random: fix crng_ready() test" Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-07 05:50 +0200
    Bug#897572: [PATCH] Revert "random: fix crng_ready() test" "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-05-07 06:20 +0200
  Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-07 19:40 +0200
    Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-08 01:20 +0200
      Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-08 04:10 +0200
        Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-08 06:00 +0200
          Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-08 07:00 +0200
  Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2018-05-08 13:40 +0200
    Bug#897572: urandom hang in early boot Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-05-09 18:40 +0200
  Bug#897572: getrandom hang in early boot prevents plymouth passphrase entry Esokrates <esokrarkose@gmail.com> - 2018-05-09 11:00 +0200
  Bug#897572: [PATCH] Copy fontconfig .uuid files to avoid getrandom hang in early boot Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-05-10 02:00 +0200

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