Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from`
From: Sultan Alsawaf
Date: Tue May 01 2018 - 20:43:30 EST
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Justin Forbes wrote:
>
> I have not reproduced in GCE myself. We did get some confirmation
> that removing dracut-fips does make the problem less dire (but I
> wouldn't call a 4 minute boot a win, but booting in 4 minutes is
> better than not booting at all). Specifically systemd calls libgcrypt
> before it even opens the log with fips there, and this is before
> virtio-rng modules could even load. Right now though, we are looking
> at pretty much any possible options as the majority of people are
> calling for me to backout the patches completely from rawhide.
I've attached what I think is a reasonable stopgap solution until this is
actually fixed. If you're willing to revert the CVE-2018-1108 patches
completely, then I don't think you'll mind using this patch in the meantime.
Sultan