On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 07:18:40PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>
> I agree. I will look if this is easily possible for secure_seq and
> syncookies but depending on the data structure and its size it is a much
> harder thing to do. I wanted to try the low-hanging fruits first. ;)
To use syn
Hi!
Thanks for looking into this!
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:00:34AM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > [PATCH RFC] random: introduce get_random_bytes_busy_wait_initialized
> >
> > We want to use goo
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:00:34AM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> [PATCH RFC] random: introduce get_random_bytes_busy_wait_initialized
>
> We want to use good entropy for initializing the secret keys used for
> hashing in the core network stack. So busy wait before extracting r
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 05:06:50AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 11:00 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>
> > /*
> > + * Busy loop until the nonblocking_pool is intialized and return
> > + * random data in buf of size nbytes.
> > + *
> > + * This is used by the network stac
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 11:00 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> /*
> + * Busy loop until the nonblocking_pool is intialized and return
> + * random data in buf of size nbytes.
> + *
> + * This is used by the network stack to defer the extraction of
> + * entropy from the nonblocking_pool until t
or patch from Hannes Frederic Sowa.
>
> Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Perhaps we can even do a bit better? This patch is a RFC and I could split the
random and network parts if needed.
[PATCH RFC] random: introduce get_random_bytes_busy_wait_initialized
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