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Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom"
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:17:20 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:17:20 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
commit8aacbc4464c843ba6f692bdb476469d5d2c3622f
treebae948239e4a6ffe8917fb4ea045d144d70df971
parent2ff4a2e78ca5f307b96077eff9179aa50f61be89
Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom"

This reverts commit a688631c3316926a9046becf6f47ae179cbc1f0b.

It turns out we still can't do this.  Way too many platforms that don't
have any real source of randomness at boot and no jitter entropy because
they don't even have a cycle counter.

As reported by Guenter Roeck:

 "This 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:'"

This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll
revert it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220322155820.GA1745955@roeck-us.net/
Reported-and-bisected-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jason Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/mem.c
drivers/char/random.c
include/linux/random.h