fix: random: only read from /dev/random after its pool has received 128 bits (v5.2)
authorMichael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Tue, 21 May 2019 20:33:14 +0000 (16:33 -0400)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 22 May 2019 14:48:30 +0000 (10:48 -0400)
commita6a26911cc7888458bd91feb433df584d7dcd5c8
tree445b431f08c83736b3466e5bad5d415bbb31e23c
parentf98bc8fbefdf009ab80e0e8eb5d1a3c6b4a642a3
fix: random: only read from /dev/random after its pool has received 128 bits (v5.2)

See upstream commit:

  commit eb9d1bf079bb438d1a066d72337092935fc770f6
  Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
  Date:   Wed Feb 20 16:06:38 2019 -0500

    random: only read from /dev/random after its pool has received 128 bits

    Immediately after boot, we allow reads from /dev/random before its
    entropy pool has been fully initialized.  Fix this so that we don't
    allow this until the blocking pool has received 128 bits.

    We do this by repurposing the initialized flag in the entropy pool
    struct, and use the initialized flag in the blocking pool to indicate
    whether it is safe to pull from the blocking pool.

    To do this, we needed to rework when we decide to push entropy from the
    input pool to the blocking pool, since the initialized flag for the
    input pool was used for this purpose.  To simplify things, we no
    longer use the initialized flag for that purpose, nor do we use the
    entropy_total field any more.

Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
instrumentation/events/lttng-module/random.h
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