linux-kernel - Re: repeatable boot randomness inside KVM guest

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Date:   Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:41:34 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: repeatable boot randomness inside KVM guest

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 06:44:19PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> What needs to happen is freelist should get randomized much later in
> the boot sequence.  Doing it later will require locking; I don't know
> enough about the slab/slub code to know whether the slab_mutex would
> be sufficient, or some other lock might need to be added.

Could we have the bootloader pass in some initial randomness?