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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
	netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup for random seed initialization ip_conntrack_hash_rnd
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:19:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <407BA293.1090207@eurodev.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040412233025.GF1424@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>

Hi Harald,

Harald Welte wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:56:17AM +0200, Pablo Neira wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Harald and list,
>>
>>Attached a clean up for the initialization of the random seed used in 
>>ip_conntrack. With this patch the random seed is initialized once when 
>>ip_conntrack is loaded instead of checking every time a conntrack is 
>>created whether it was already initialized or not. If I'm missing 
>>something, please let me know.
>>    
>>
>
>yes, you are missing that there might not be sufficient entropy yet at
>the time ip_conntrack is loaded (or, for that matter, consider a
>statically linked ip_conntrack).
>  
>
ok, that's makes me understand the reason why the initialization is done 
that way.

thanks,
Pablo

      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-13  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-12 22:56 [PATCH] cleanup for random seed initialization ip_conntrack_hash_rnd Pablo Neira
2004-04-12 23:30 ` Harald Welte
2004-04-13  8:19   ` Pablo Neira [this message]

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