lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Apr]   [14]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: repeatable boot randomness inside KVM guest
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 06:44:19PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> What needs to happen is freelist should get randomized much later in
> the boot sequence. Doing it later will require locking; I don't know
> enough about the slab/slub code to know whether the slab_mutex would
> be sufficient, or some other lock might need to be added.

Could we have the bootloader pass in some initial randomness?

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-04-15 02:41    [W:0.089 / U:0.332 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site