[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-08-09 Thread Michael Vogt
The above image was build by manually adding the patched util-linux libuuid.so to the initramfs. The kernel (snap) build system does not use -proposed so the initrd had to be updated this way to test this on core. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-08-08 Thread Sergio Cazzolato
I validated this by using this new core18 image http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/tmp/core18-amd64-18-alpha20180803-with-lp1783810.img.xz It is working now ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Sergio Cazzolato (sergio-j-cazzolato) ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-07-27 Thread Marc Deslauriers
s/from a security/from the security team's/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783810 Title: [SRU] blocks boot on core18 Status in util-linux package in

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-07-27 Thread Marc Deslauriers
I think this is acceptable from a security point of view, especially since this is an upstream change. Before randutils.c implemented support for the getrandom() call, it used /dev/urandom. The patch simply falls back to using /dev/urandom if there is no enough entropy for getrandom(). -- You

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-07-27 Thread Michael Vogt
Thanks for your careful review Robie! As far as security is concerned, upstream comments on this in edc1c90cb972fdca1f66be5a8e2b0706bd2a4949: """ Note that we do not use random numbers for security sensitive things like keys or so. It's used for random based UUIDs etc. """ I looked at the

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-07-27 Thread Adam Conrad
Hello Michael, or anyone else affected, Accepted util-linux into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util- linux/2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help us by testing this new package.

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

2018-07-27 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Michael, What else uses this function, and does it do it in a security sensitive way whose behaviour is now changed possibly for the worse? I understand that the change is from upstream so they consider it OK, but that doesn't placate my concern completely. Second, I found