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Date:   Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:05:20 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 08:10:15AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 07:59:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > All my smoke testing looked fine - I disabled trusting the CPU, I
> > increased the required entropy a lot, and to actually trigger the
> > lockup issue without the broken user space, I made /dev/urandom do
> > that "wait for entropy" thing too.
> 
> Hohum, seems to get rid of the longish delay during boot on my test
> boxes here:

Yes; for me too. This makes a huge difference in my ARM emulation
environments (where I wasn't using virtio-rng-device). Those VMs were
very boot entropy starved -- I was waiting minutes for sshd to start.

I doubt running something like dieharder on urandom would actually show
any deficiencies, but I've started a test up anyway. I'll yell in a few
hours if it actually has something bad to say. :)

-- 
Kees Cook