linux-kernel - Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random

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Date:   Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:20:33 -0700
From:   Sultan Alsawaf <sultanxda@...il.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 08:41:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Umm. No. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneBjc8z0DE

Okay, but /dev/urandom isn't a solution to this problem because it isn't usable
until crng init is complete, so it suffers from the same init lag as
/dev/random.

Sultan