| Date | Wed, 7 Jun 2017 22:45:12 -0400 | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v4 07/13] ceph: ensure RNG is seeded before using |
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:47:58PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Ceph uses the RNG for various nonce generations, and it shouldn't accept > using bad randomness. So, we wait for the RNG to be properly seeded. We > do this by calling wait_for_random_bytes() in a function that is > certainly called in process context, early on, so that all subsequent > calls to get_random_bytes are necessarily acceptable. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> > Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> > Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com> > Cc: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
Thanks, applied to the dev branch.
- Ted
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