Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 18:51, Grant Grundler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:35:23 +0000 Andrej Shadura <[email protected]> wrote: > > Source: wpa > > Source-Version: 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-1 > > > > We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of > > wpa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. > > For the record, the issue I reported was introduced in 4.16 kernel > with this change: > > commit dc12baacb95f205948f64dc936a47d89ee110117 > Author: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> > Date: Wed Apr 11 14:58:27 2018 -0400 > > random: use a different mixing algorithm for add_device_randomness() > > Some fixes were applied up to 4.18 kernel to improve things but the > actual "fix" (or workaround) is to install rng-tools5 (worked for me). > Per guidance in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898814#62
Right. I wasn’t expecting getrandom to be a proper fix or fix at all, to be honest, but at least it would be doing the better thing, if not the right thing. I don’t think there’s more to be done on the wpa side. -- Cheers, Andrej
