Re: [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and introduce getrandom2()

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On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:51:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So we absolutely _will_ come up with some way 0 ends the wait. Whether
> it's _just_ a timeout, or whether it's jitter-entropy or whatever, it
> will happen.

FWIW, Zircon uses the jitter entropy generator to seed the CRNG and 
documented their findings in 
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/zircon/jitterentropy/config-basic .
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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