On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:23:12PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:18:27PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > >>Matt Mackall wrote: > >> > >>>which would have been in v2.6.22-rc4 through the normal CVE process. > >>>The only other bits in there are wall time and utsname, so systems > >>>with no CMOS clock would behave repeatably. Can we find out what > >>>kernels are affected? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>We can but it will likely take a few weeks to get a good sampling. UUID > >>is unique in the db so when someone checks in with the same UUID, the > >>old one gets overwritten. > >> > > > >We can probably assume that for whatever reason the two things with > >duplicate UUID had the same seed. If not, we've got -much- bigger > >problems. > > > > Ok, I think I see whats going on here. I have some further investigation > to do but it seems that the way our Live CD installer works is causing > these issues. I'm going to try to grab some live CD's and hardware to > confirm but at this point it seems thats whats going on.
Alright, keep me posted. We probably need a scheme to make the initial seed more robust regardless of what you find out. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
