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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: split initialization into early arch step and later non-arch step
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:30:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YzLCy2rVIBebeMrB@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9qTf+aDmBen2dFXPmbDGkn1E4=oXqqeBRiguLCo7K9EhQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:34:16AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > Yes, we could maybe *change* to using init_utsname if we wanted. That
> > > seems kind of different though. So I'd prefer that to be a different
> > > patch, which would require looking at the interaction with early
> > > hostname setting and such. If you want to do that work, I'd certainly
> > > welcome the patch.
> >
> > Er, isn't that _WAY_ later? Like, hostname isn't set until sysctls up
> > and running, etc. I haven't actually verified 100% but it looks like
> > current->utsname is exactly init_utsname currently.
> 
> If init_utsname()==utsname() and all is fine, can you please send a
> patch atop random.git adjusting that and explaining why? I would
> happily take such a patch. If your suspicion is correct, it would make
> a most welcome improvement.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220927092920.1559685-1-Jason@zx2c4.com

      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-27  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-26 16:03 [PATCH] random: split initialization into early arch step and later non-arch step Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 16:22 ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-26 16:29   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-26 18:22 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-26 18:52   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-27  3:23     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-27  8:34       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-09-27  9:30         ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]

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