Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] vdso: Avoid call to memset() by getrandom

Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-26T08:01:31Z

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> With the current implementation, __cvdso_getrandom_data() calls
> memset(), which is unexpected in the VDSO.
>
> Rewrite opaque data initialisation to avoid memset().

I think of the various ways I've seen of fixing this -- e.g. adding a
memset() arch-by-arch -- this is the cleanest and simplest. I'll add
this as a fix to random.git now.

Jason