This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled random: give sysctl_random_min_urandom_seed a more sensible value to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: random-give-sysctl_random_min_urandom_seed-a-more-sensible-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Jun 17 08:58:56 AM CEST 2022 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:57:57 +0100 Subject: random: give sysctl_random_min_urandom_seed a more sensible value From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> commit d0efdf35a6a71d307a250199af6fce122a7c7e11 upstream. This isn't used by anything or anywhere, but we can't delete it due to compatibility. So at least give it the correct value of what it's supposed to be instead of a garbage one. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@ const struct file_operations urandom_fop * to avoid breaking old userspaces, but writing to it does not * change any behavior of the RNG. * - * - urandom_min_reseed_secs - fixed to the meaningless value "60". + * - urandom_min_reseed_secs - fixed to the value CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL. * It is writable to avoid breaking old userspaces, but writing * to it does not change any behavior of the RNG. * @@ -1622,7 +1622,7 @@ const struct file_operations urandom_fop #include <linux/sysctl.h> -static int sysctl_random_min_urandom_seed = 60; +static int sysctl_random_min_urandom_seed = CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL / HZ; static int sysctl_random_write_wakeup_bits = POOL_MIN_BITS; static int sysctl_poolsize = POOL_BITS; static u8 sysctl_bootid[UUID_SIZE]; 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