Re: Status of this bug

2018-07-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday, 23 July 2018 14:30:06 BST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:

> This has happened so far:

>

> From the Debian side maxy added haveged as a sddm recommendation and as a

> workaround.

>

> From the Qt side Thiago from upstream is trying to determine what changed in

> the kernel side, as this clearly started to happen with 4.16 and got worse

> with 4.17.

>

> Ben, linux maintainers: if you could give us a hand to determine what

> changed from the kernel side it would be much much appreciated. If we find

> that there are valid changes then we might have an opportunity to make Qt

> upstreams reconsider the issue.

>

> Cheers, Lisandro.

Interesting to note that on a system with sysvinit (and 4.17 kernel) there is 
no noticeable delay in sddm startup.



David




Re: Status of this bug

2018-07-23 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 12:49, Ben Hutchings  wrote:
> CVE-2018-1108 was fixed in the kernel.

Thanks Ben


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Re: Status of this bug

2018-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 10:30 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> This has happened so far:
> 
> From the Debian side maxy added haveged as a sddm recommendation and as a 
> workaround.
> 
> From the Qt side Thiago from upstream is trying to determine what changed in 
> the kernel side, as this clearly started to happen with 4.16 and got worse 
> with 4.17.
> 
> Ben, linux maintainers: if you could give us a hand to determine what changed 
> from the kernel side it would be much much appreciated. If we find that there 
> are valid changes then we might have an opportunity to make Qt upstreams 
> reconsider the issue.

CVE-2018-1108 was fixed in the kernel.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.


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