linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] random: add blocking facility to urandom

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Date:	Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:43:38 +0800
From:	Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@...il.com>
To:	Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>,
	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>,
	Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@...ec.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add blocking facility to urandom

Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com> wrote:

> Ted Ts'o wrote:

>> Yeah, but there are userspace programs that depend on urandom not
>> blocking... so your proposed change would break them.
>> ...

> But only if you've set the sysctl to a non-zero value, ...
>
> But again, I want to stress that out of the box, there's absolutely no
> change to the way urandom behaves, no blocking, this *only* kicks in if you
> twiddle the sysctl because you have some sort of security requirement that
> mandates it.

So it only breaks things on systems with high security requirements?
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