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authorSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2014-03-28 17:38:42 +0100
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2016-09-10 12:06:19 +0200
commitba363b525a0c9c8e3ba8a35df38e8d645212eda4 (patch)
treecc15b2e1c93903bc4fb0aab306122129f029f81e /tools/scripts
parentdb0796e74cc9208d7c34ba8d6392f045b92a8222 (diff)
random32: avoid attempt to late reseed if in the middle of seeding
Commit 4af712e8df ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized") has added a late reseed stage that happens as soon as the nonblocking pool is marked as initialized. This fails in the case that the nonblocking pool gets initialized during __prandom_reseed()'s call to get_random_bytes(). In that case we'd double back into __prandom_reseed() in an attempt to do a late reseed - deadlocking on 'lock' early on in the boot process. Instead, just avoid even waiting to do a reseed if a reseed is already occuring. Fixes: 4af712e8df99 ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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