Re: [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and introduce getrandom2()
From: Florian Weimer
Date: Sat Sep 21 2019 - 02:07:48 EST
* Linus Torvalds:
> Violently agreed. And that's kind of what the GRND_EXPLICIT is really
> aiming for.
>
> However, it's worth noting that nobody should ever use GRND_EXPLICIT
> directly. That's just the name for the bit. The actual users would use
> GRND_INSECURE or GRND_SECURE.
Should we switch glibc's getentropy to GRND_EXPLICIT? Or something
else?
I don't think we want to print a kernel warning for this function.
Thanks,
Florian