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>  - add new GRND_SECURE and GRND_INSECURE flags that have the actual
> useful behaviors that we currently pretty much lack
>
>  - consider the old 0-3 flag values legacy, deprecated, and unsafe
> because they _will_ time out to fix the existing problem we have right
> now because of their bad behavior.

Just for the record because I did not see it mentioned in this thread,
this patch by Andy Lutomirski, posted two weeks ago, adds GRND_INSECURE
and makes GRND_RANDOM a no-op:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1567126741.git.luto@kernel.org/