Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:23:23 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.29-pre2 |
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:50:40PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > 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.
Yes, I'm aware of it, Tytso is working on v2.4 backport of the correct locking.
Thanks for the reminder!
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