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Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 14:32:20 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 2/5] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall
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On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 01:48:10PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jason A. Donenfeld:
> 
> > Libc is expected to allocate a chunk of these on first use, and then
> > dole them out to threads as they're created, allocating more when
> > needed. The returned address of the first state may be passed to
> > munmap(2) with a length of `num * size_per_each`, in order to deallocate
> > the memory.
> 
> I think “first use” actually means “processs start” here?  We don't have
> a way to report failure from arc4random and similar interfaces.

First use, actually. On failure this just falls back to slow syscall
getrandom() with identical semantics.

Adhemerval has a branch of libc where he implemented this, if you're
interested. He's in CC to send the link.

Jason