linux-kernel - Re: Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1

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Date:   Thu, 1 Nov 2018 23:18:14 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@...ckx.be>,
        912087@...s.debian.org,
        "Package Development List for OpenSSL packages." 
        <pkg-openssl-devel@...oth-lists.debian.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@...lbox.org>,
        pkg-systemd-maintainers@...ts.alioth.debian.org,
        debian-ssh@...ts.debian.org, 912087-submitter@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to
 7.9p1

On 2018-10-31 18:41:06 [-0400], Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:21:59AM +0000, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On October 30, 2018 8:51:36 PM UTC, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >So it's complicated.  It's not a binary trusted/untrusted sort of
> > >thing.  
> > 
> > What about RNDRESEEDCRNG? Would it be reasonable to issue it after writing the seed as part of the boot process?
> 
> No, that's for debugging purposes only.

Okay. I'm asking because it has been added to the kernel, marked stable
and the man page has not been updated. So it did not look like a
debugging interface :)

> When there is sufficient entropy added (either through a hw_random
> subsystem, or because RDRAND is trusted, or the RNDADDENTORPY ioctl),
> the crng is automatically reseeded by credit_entropy_bits().  So it's
> not needed to use RNDRESEEDCRNG.

Okay. So you wrote what can be done for a system with HW-RNG/kvm. On
bare metal with nothing fancy I have:
[    3.544985] systemd[1]: systemd 239 running in system mode. (+PAM…
[   10.363377] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth0: link up
[   41.966375] random: crng init done

which means I have to wait about half a minute until I can ssh into. And
there is no way to speed it up?
You did not oppose RNDADDTOENTCNT/RNDADDENTROPY but you wanted to make
it configureable and not default, correct?

> 
> 					- Ted

Sebastian