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Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:55:13 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To:     Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG, PATCH] random: sleep in irq context
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:40:36AM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> > This happend once during boot and I could not reproduce this since, but I
> > think the following patch should fix the issue:
> 
> I can now recreate the issue reliably. The following patch works for me:

I have a patch in the random tree that I will be pushing to Linus
shortly.  It uses a slightly different approach than yours, but should
address the problem you observed.

   https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1672186.html

							- Ted