Hi Kees, >> the commit d9e7972619334656 ends up being responsible that using "-device >> virtio-rng-pci" in KVM no longer works. >> >> From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:51:48 -0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] hwrng: add randomness to system from rng sources >> >> When bringing a new RNG source online, it seems like it would make >> sense >> to use some of its bytes to make the system entropy pool more random, >> as done with all sorts of other devices that contain per-device or >> per-boot differences. >> >> When providing "-device virtio-rng-pci" to a kernel with the above commit, >> the kernel never finishes booting. It just stops. My guess it is waiting for >> some magic entropy to appear. >> >> Maybe this is something that should be fixed in virtio-rng driver instead of >> reverting this patch, but I leave this to the experts in this area. > > Yup, this has already been handled. See various threads around: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/5/14
I bisected 3.16-rc5 and it was not yet fixed there. It seems the fixes got merged less than 48 hours ago. Which means I just missed them. Tried with HEAD now and all looks good. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
