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

From "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use
Date 2017-06-17 02:50 +0200
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Hi Lee,

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> wrote:
> 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?

The process just remains in interruptible (kill-able) sleep until
there is enough entropy, so the process doesn't need to do anything.
If the waiting is interrupted by a signal, it returns -ESYSRESTART,
which follows the usual semantics of restartable syscalls.

Jason

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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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