Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:50:40 -0600 (CST) | From | Adam Heath <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.29-pre2 |
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi, > > Here goes the second -pre of Linux v2.4.29.
I don't know if you've been following, but it was recently discoverd that on smp, if multiple processes read from /dev/urandom at the same time, they can get the same data. Theodore Tytso posted a patch to fix this for 2.6, and someone else told me this problem has existed all the way back to 1.3.
This is a security issue, and should be included in the 2.4 tree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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