linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] random: Make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom

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Message-ID: <20200107210257.GJ3619@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 16:02:57 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] random: Make /dev/random be almost like
 /dev/urandom

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 12:20:48AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This patch changes the read semantics of /dev/random to be the same
> as /dev/urandom except that reads will block until the CRNG is
> ready.
> 
> None of the cleanups that this enables have been done yet.  As a
> result, this gives a warning about an unused function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

Applied, thanks.

						- Ted