New submission from Nick Coghlan: The configure script determines the setting for HAVE_GETRANDOM_SYSCALL at build time, which means the dynamic check for getrandom() support in the Linux kernel gets disabled when building against an older kernel.
This impacts the implicit use of getrandom() in os.urandom(): https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/2016-June/000060.html And also the new os.getrandom() API added in #27778: http://bugs.python.org/issue27778#msg274698 It's desirable to have a way of forcing the inclusion of the dynamic runtime check, even if the currently running kernel doesn't provide the syscall itself. ---------- messages: 274715 nosy: encukou, martin.panter, ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Provide a way to enable getrandom on Linux even when build system runs an older kernel type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27990> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
