From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.29-pre2
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:23:23 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041216172323.GH9986@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412161349260.2173@gradall.private.brainfood.com>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:50:40PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here goes the second -pre of Linux v2.4.29.
>
> I don't know if you've been following, but it was recently discoverd that on
> smp, if multiple processes read from /dev/urandom at the same time, they can
> get the same data. Theodore Tytso posted a patch to fix this for 2.6, and
> someone else told me this problem has existed all the way back to 1.3.
>
> This is a security issue, and should be included in the 2.4 tree.
Yes, I'm aware of it, Tytso is working on v2.4 backport of the correct locking.
Thanks for the reminder!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 11:35 Linux 2.4.29-pre2 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-16 19:50 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-16 17:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
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