From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH-2018.02.x] util-linux: add two upstream patches to fix blocking on getrandom() with recent kernels
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 09:48:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736ycmd9i.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1571905527.184522.1527477837171.JavaMail.zimbra@datacom.com.br> (Carlos Santos's message of "Mon, 28 May 2018 00:23:57 -0300 (BRT)")
>>>>> "Carlos" == Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.ind.br> writes:
Hi,
>> This change unfortunately causes users of libuuid from util-linux to block
>> for a very long time waiting for sufficient entropy. An example of this is
>> mke2fs, which uses libuuid to generate the filesystem UUID.
>>
>> Fix this by backporting two post-2.31 fixes from upstream.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
> Tested-by: Carlos Santos <casantos@datacom.com.br>
> Built host and target util-linux for x86_64 systems running Linux
> kernel 4.16.11 (Fedora 28) and 4.14.39 (Buildroot), respectively.
> Ran mke2fs from an early init script to check that it did not block.
Committed to 2018.02.x, thanks.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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2018-05-27 10:39 [Buildroot] [PATCH-2018.02.x] util-linux: add two upstream patches to fix blocking on getrandom() with recent kernels Peter Korsgaard
2018-05-28 3:23 ` Carlos Santos
2018-05-28 7:48 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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