From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] random: Ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 15:44:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20200107204427.GI3619@mit.edu> References: <705c5a091b63cc5da70c99304bb97e0109be0a26.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <705c5a091b63cc5da70c99304bb97e0109be0a26.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: LKML , Linux API , Kees Cook , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Lennart Poettering , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Michael Kerrisk , Willy Tarreau , Matthew Garrett , Ext4 Developers List , linux-man , Stephan Mueller List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:20:47AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > The separate blocking pool is going away. Start by ignoring > GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2). > > This should not materially break any API. Any code that worked > without this change should work at least as well with this change. > > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Applied, thanks. - Ted