From: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Please apply 50ee7529ec45 ("random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it") to 4.19.y
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:02:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200127230214.GC25530@morgul.net> (raw)
As detailed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948519 and
https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation, lack of boot-time entropy
can contribute to multi-minute pauses during system initialization in some
hardware configurations. While userspace workarounds, e.g. haveged, are
documented, the in-kernel jitter entropy collector eliminates the need for such
workarounds.
It cherry-picks cleanly to 4.19.y and 4.14.y. I'm particularly interested
in the former.
Thanks for considering this.
noah
next reply other threads:[~2020-01-27 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-27 23:02 Noah Meyerhans [this message]
2020-01-28 7:52 ` Please apply 50ee7529ec45 ("random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it") to 4.19.y Greg KH
2020-01-28 19:34 ` Noah Meyerhans
2020-01-28 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-30 0:39 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-30 14:49 ` Greg KH
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