From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forcing a more random uuid (random seed bug)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:55:50 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cvggq6$721$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200502021433.42108.niccolo@texnet.it
Followup to: <200502021433.42108.niccolo@texnet.it>
By author: Niccolo Rigacci <niccolo@texnet.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> > I get /dev/md5, /dev/md6, /dev/md7
> > and /dev/md8 all with the same UUID!
>
> It seems that there is a bug in mdadm: when generating the UUID for a
> volume, the random() function is called, but the random sequence is never
> initialized.
>
> The result is that every volume created with mdadm has an uuid of:
> 6b8b4567:327b23c6:643c9869:66334873
>
> See also Debian bug 292784 at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292784
>
> I fixed the problem adding the following patch to mdadm.c, but please bear
> in mind that I'm totally unaware of mdadm code and quite naive in C
> programming:
>
Please don't use (s)random at all, except as a possible fallback to
/dev/(u)random.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-22 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-01 17:47 Forcing a more random uuid Niccolo Rigacci
2005-02-02 13:33 ` Forcing a more random uuid (random seed bug) Niccolo Rigacci
2005-02-22 23:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2005-02-08 14:05 linux
2005-02-22 23:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
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