linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2015 21:38:38 +0200
From:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	pebolle@...cali.nl, andreas.steffen@...ongswan.org, tytso@....edu,
	sandyinchina@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking_pool

Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2015, 20:49:45 schrieb Stephan Mueller:

Hi Herbert,

> > This is just a convoluted way of doing an uninterruptible sleep.
> > Either make it uninterruptible or allow the function to return
> > an error.
> 
> Sorry, I overlooked the availability of wait_event. I was looking for it
> initially, but missed it. I will fix it right away.

After checking a bit more, I see that an uninterruptible sleep cannot be 
canceled with cancel_work_sync. Therefore, replacing it with wait_event does 
not work.

Thus, go get an uninterruptible sleep which yet can be canceled seems to 
require wait_event_interruptible together with the check for ERESTARTSYS.

Nonetheless, I move the loop out to the DRBG code as requested.

-- 
Ciao
Stephan
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