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Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use

From Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use
Date 2017-06-17 00:00 +0200
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On 06/08/2017 05:09 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> What was the testing that was done for commit?  It looks safe, but I'm
>> unfamiliar enough with how the iSCSI authentication works that I'd
>> prefer getting an ack'ed by from the iSCSI maintainers or
>> alternativel, information about how to kick off some kind of automated
>> test suite ala xfstests for file systems.
> 
> Only very basic testing from my end.
> 
> I'm thus adding the iSCSI list to see if they'll have a look (patch reattached).
> 
> Jason
> 

It seems like what you are doing is basically "good", i.e. if there is
not enough random data, don't use it. But what happens in that case? The
authentication fails? How does the user know to wait and try again?
-- 
Lee Duncan
SUSE Labs

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Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-06-08 04:50 +0200
  Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is  seeded before use "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-08 14:20 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is  seeded before use Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2017-06-17 00:00 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is  seeded before use "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-17 02:50 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is  seeded before use Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> - 2017-06-17 05:50 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is  seeded before use Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2017-06-17 16:30 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net> - 2017-06-17 21:00 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use Stephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2017-06-18 10:10 +0200

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