Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:20:41 +0200 | From | Oscar Roozen <> | Subject | Re: /dev/random blocks forever on 2.2.12 and 2.2.16 |
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 07:41:37PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >Yes, I can put a monkey behind the keyboard, but if somebody knows a > >better solution, please don't be shy. ;) > Use /dev/urandom
You mean I do "ln -sf /dev/urandom /dev/random" ? Nah... ;)
Several people sent me a private email sugesting to use urandom instead, but it's not what I use, it's about what all software on the machine uses. Should I patch SSH? Should I patch SSL? Or are they using urandom anyway?
The issue here is that /dev/random is not working. Apparantly because add_interrupt_randomness is not called from the SMART2 driver. But then again, no add_*_randomness is called from any scsi/*.c driver.
The only call to add_interrupt_randomness I can find is in */kernel/pci.c from handle_IRQ_event and I don't understand why this one never gets called on this machine. Also the only call to add_blkdev_randomness is in ide.c. Why is there no call from any of the scsi/*.c drivers?
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