Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:45:15 -0500 | From | Nathan Zimmer <> | Subject | Re: /proc/timer_list and weird behavior with dropbear |
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On 07/19/2013 10:28 AM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: > Dear Nathan, > > I am currently upgrading a kernel for a TI Davinci DM644x based design > from Linux 3.2 to Linux 3.10.1. I have a funny re-producible issue that > goes away by reverting b3956a896ea57f25cacd74708b8fab611543a81d. > > The dropbear sshd will open several files after accepting a connection to > generate some entropy. The "/proc/timer_list" file is part of that[1]. > It will open that file and will try to read until the end of the file, but > most of the time this end never comes. According to strace the read on the > fd will always return 2048. I have attached the testcase I am using to > re-produce the issue. > > Can this be re-produced by anyone else? > > holger > > > > [1] https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/file/028fa77f952f/random.c#l204 > I hadn't noticed anything. Let me try your program and see what I may have missed.
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