Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom"
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:17:20 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:17:20 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
commit0313bc278dac7cd9ce83a8d384581dc043156965
treebae948239e4a6ffe8917fb4ea045d144d70df971
parentb47d5a4f6b8d42f8a8fbe891b36215e4fddc53be
Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom"

This reverts commit 6f98a4bfee72c22f50aedb39fb761567969865fe.

It turns out we still can't do this.  Way too many platforms that don't
have any real source of randomness at boot and no jitter entropy because
they don't even have a cycle counter.

As reported by Guenter Roeck:

 "This causes a large number of qemu boot test failures for various
  architectures (arm, m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I
  observed).

  Common denominator is that boot hangs at 'Saving random seed:'"

This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll
revert it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220322155820.GA1745955@roeck-us.net/
Reported-and-bisected-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jason Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/mem.c
drivers/char/random.c
include/linux/random.h