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From:   Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 07:09:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
        Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>,
        Sultan Alsawaf <sultanxda@gmail.com>,
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:02 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Justin Forbes wrote:
>>
>> I have not reproduced in GCE myself.  We did get some confirmation
>> that removing dracut-fips does make the problem less dire (but I
>> wouldn't call a 4 minute boot a win, but booting in 4 minutes is
>> better than not booting at all).  Specifically systemd calls libgcrypt
>> before it even opens the log with fips there, and this is before
>> virtio-rng modules could even load. Right now though, we are looking
>> at pretty much any possible options as the majority of people are
>> calling for me to backout the patches completely from rawhide.
>
> FWIW, Debian Testing is using systemd 238, and from what I can tell
> it's calling libgcrypt and it has the same (as near as I can tell)
> totally pointless hmac nonsense, and it's not a problem that I can
> see.  Of course, Debian and Fedora may have a different set of
> patches....
>
Yes, Fedora libgcrypt is carrying a patch which makes it particularly
painful for us, we have reached out to the libgcrypt maintainer to
follow up on that end. But as I said before, even without that code
path (no dracut-fips) we are seeing some instances of 4 minute boots.
This is not really a workable user experience.  And are you sure that
every cloud platform and VM platform offers, makes it possible to
config virtio-rng?

Justin