clone 897572 -1
reassign -1 src:utils-linux 2.31.1-0.5
thanks
On Thu, 10 May 2018 14:36:56 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz>
wrote:
> On 10/05/18 13:47, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > One other way to address this problem is to upgrade to util-linux 2.32
> > (released on March 21, 2018), interstingly, *before* the CVE-2018-1108
> > patches, whiich landed month later.
> > The relevant commits from util-linux 2.32:
> > a9cf659e0508: lib/randutils: Do not block on getrandom()
> > edc1c90cb972: lib/randutils: don't break on EAGAIN, use usleep()
>
> Thanks, Ted. That is good to know. Upgrading to util-linux 2.32 will
> likely prevent the hang, but it is also worth noting that, after
> edc1c90cb972, each call of util-linux 2.32 lib/randutils.c
> random_get_bytes will make nine nonblocking getrandom calls over one
> second before giving up, sleeping between them. If fontconfig generates
> four .uuid files, this will introduce an additional delay of four
> seconds before the plymouth passphrase screen is shown. This delay can
> be avoided with my plymouth patch to copy the .uuid files into the
> initramfs with the DejaVu fonts.
>
> See: random_get_bytes from util-linux 2.32 lib/randutils.c:
>
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/lib/randutils.c?h=v2.32#n101
>
Thanks, I'll try to fix that in plymouth.
In the mean time I'll clone this bug and reassign it to util-linux,
plymouth is not the only thing affected here (see my message about GDM)
Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville
