On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:19:57PM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > > Hmmm, yes - the patch fixes the crashes, i.e. no more crashes with > either sequence of module-loading, cat rng_available works as well, > but... > > Having this patch active rngd complains: > rngd[1435]: rngd 2-unofficial-mt.13 starting up... > rngd[1435]: block failed FIPS test: 0x1f > rngd[1435]: block failed FIPS test: 0x1f > ... > rngd[1435]: stats: entropy added to kernel pool: 0 > rngd[1435]: stats: FIPS 140-2 successes: 0 > rngd[1435]: stats: FIPS 140-2 failures: 10 > > It doesn't do this without the patch. > The only available rng was via, I did blacklist the others just to be > sure.
Hmm, can you print out what it's actually producing (e.g., by stracing rngd)? Can you also double-check that this doesn't happen with Larry's patch? Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
