From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751151Ab3KGEN2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 23:13:28 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:20461 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750766Ab3KGEN1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2013 23:13:27 -0500 Message-ID: <527B1399.8090805@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:14:17 +0800 From: Jeff Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stephan.mueller@atsec.com CC: Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Andreas Dilger , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "Ted Ts'o" , jakub@redhat.com, drepper@redhat.com, James Morris , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] binfmt_elf.c: use get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting References: <50A46BBD.3060701@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <50A46BBD.3060701@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Stephan, As per your previous comments for this fix, you have promised another approach which is promising to avoid entropy starvation, I got this info from the following thread: [PATCH] avoid entropy starvation due to stack protection https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/14/267 My current fix has been merged into Andrew's tree(marked in "stuck" state) for a long time, and it also works well in our internal specific kernel, I'd like to know if there is any update from you, so that we can move it along for mainline. :) Thanks, -Jeff