Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965507Ab0GPM6r (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:58:47 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:50951 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965374Ab0GPM6p (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:58:45 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Y/Mj/FxM90kitTkoF2TqYpUSc6DXxi+5E2asgvL6vknc 1279285124 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:58:41 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Matt Mackall Cc: Herbert Xu , "Theodore Ts'o" , Michael Biebl , 587665@bugs.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petter Reinholdtsen Subject: Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: Safety of early boot init of /dev/random seed Message-ID: <20100716125841.GA21384@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20100701141022.GA3811@login1.uio.no> <20100701171357.GE4789@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20100702064415.GE3811@login1.uio.no> <20100702232919.GA14437@login2.uio.no> <20100703012833.GA20929@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20100703151636.GB23648@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20100703160819.GA12343@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1278355233.9937.21.camel@calx> <20100715233305.GF27512@khazad-dum.debian.net> <1279248082.936.250.camel@calx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1279248082.936.250.camel@calx> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 29 On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > Don't bother fiddling with the pool size. > > > > We don't, but local admins often do, probably in an attempt to better handle > > bursts of entropy drainage. So, we do want to properly support non-standard > > pool sizes in Debian if we can. > > Unless they're manually patching their kernel, they probably aren't > succeeding. The pool resize ioctl was disabled ages ago. But there's > really nothing to support here: even the largest polynomial in the > source is only 2048 bits, or 256 bytes. Well, cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize 4096 And that is stock mainline 2.6.32.16 on amd64, AFAIK... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/