Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v4 05/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using

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On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The use in keys/big_key is _being_ removed, so this commit is
> dependent on that commit landing, correct?  (Order matters, because
> otherwise we don't want to potentially screw up doing a kernel bisect
> and causing their kernel to deadlock during the boot while they are
> trying to track down an unreleated problem.)

Yes. It's actually landing with get_random_bytes, to avoid a
dependency problem when merging. After these both lands, I'll submit a
third changing that over to get_random_bytes_wait in the right place.



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