Hi Ted,
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I agree completely with all of this. The following patch replaces the
> current topmost patch on the random.git tree:
> For developers who want to work on improving this situation,
> CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM has
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:06:49PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> All the distro kernels I'm aware of have DEBUG_KERNEL=y.
>
> Where all includes at least RHEL, SLES, Fedora, Ubuntu & Debian.
>
> So it's still essentially default y.
>
> Emitting *one* warning by default would be reasonable.
"Jason A. Donenfeld" writes:
> This enables an important dmesg notification about when drivers have
> used the crng without it being seeded first. Prior, these errors would
> occur silently, and so there hasn't been a great way of diagnosing these
> types of bugs for obscure
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> This enables an important dmesg notification about when drivers have
> used the crng without it being seeded first. Prior, these errors would
> occur silently, and so there hasn't been a great way of diagnosing these
>
This enables an important dmesg notification about when drivers have
used the crng without it being seeded first. Prior, these errors would
occur silently, and so there hasn't been a great way of diagnosing these
types of bugs for obscure setups. By adding this as a config option, we
can leave it