linux-kernel - Re: Linux 5.3-rc8

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Message-ID: <8736gwt9bw.fsf@depni.sinp.msu.ru>
Date:   Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:55:15 +0300
From:   Serge Belyshev <belyshev@...ni.sinp.msu.ru>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Vito Caputo <vcaputo@...garu.com>,
        "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>,
        Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Ray Strode <rstrode@...hat.com>,
        William Jon McCann <mccann@....edu>,
        "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>,
        zhangjs <zachary@...shancloud.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.3-rc8


>  - add new GRND_SECURE and GRND_INSECURE flags that have the actual
> useful behaviors that we currently pretty much lack
>
>  - consider the old 0-3 flag values legacy, deprecated, and unsafe
> because they _will_ time out to fix the existing problem we have right
> now because of their bad behavior.

Just for the record because I did not see it mentioned in this thread,
this patch by Andy Lutomirski, posted two weeks ago, adds GRND_INSECURE
and makes GRND_RANDOM a no-op:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1567126741.git.luto@kernel.org/