Re: [PATCH v1] random: block in /dev/urandom

Linus Torvalds
2022-03-22T16:22:07Z

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 8:58 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> This patch (or a later version of it) made it into mainline and causes a
> large number of qemu boot test failures for various architectures (arm,
> m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I observed). Common
> denominator is that boot hangs at "Saving random seed:". A sample bisect
> log is attached. Reverting this patch fixes the problem.

Ok, it was worth trying, but yeah, it clearly causes problems for
various platforms that can't do jitter entropy and have nothing else
happening either.

Will revert.

Thanks.

Linus