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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:01:17 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/17] vdso: Avoid call to memset() by getrandom
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:13:13AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> With the current implementation, __cvdso_getrandom_data() calls
> memset(), which is unexpected in the VDSO.
>
> Rewrite opaque data initialisation to avoid memset().
I think of the various ways I've seen of fixing this -- e.g. adding a
memset() arch-by-arch -- this is the cleanest and simplest. I'll add
this as a fix to random.git now.
Jason
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