Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] [RFC] virtio-rng entropy leak reporting feature

[bchalios]

Hi Jason,

I really didn't mean to interrupt your holidays.

I posted this as an RFC exactly because I don't want this to be merged _as is_, it's just a trigger for discussion.
It is v2 just as a response to Michael's comments in the previous version and fixes for the CI.

Also, there are other people that expressed interest in this and they wanted to participate in the coversation, so that's just
that.

I hope you enjoy your vacation, get some rest and speak to you once you' re back :)

Cheers,
Babis

On 1/31/23 5:27 PM, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> You sent a v2, but I'm not back until the 11th to provide comments on
> v1. I still think this isn't the right direction, as this needs tie-ins
> to the rng to actually be useful. Please stop posting new versions of
> this for now, so that somebody doesn't accidentally merge it; that'd be
> a big mistake. I'll paste what I wrote you prior:
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> | Hi Babis,
> |
> | As I mentioned to you privately this week, I'm about to be out of town,
> | so I won't be able to look at this until I'm back in a few weeks. I
> | appreciate your patience.
> |
> | But as a cursory look, I'm happy that you've written the hardware-side
> | code for this. That's a great starting point. The plumbing is not so
> | nice, though. This needs to be integrated more closely with random.c
> | itself, similar to how vmgenid works.
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> | When I'm back in a few weeks, I'll see if I can either write a
> | description of what I have in mind, or simply integrate the useful
> | hardware work here into an expanded patch series.
> |
> | [Please don't merge anything for now.]
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> So: you wrote some maybe useful hardware code. The rest is wrong. And we
> haven't even concluded discussions on whether the virtio interface is
> the right one. In fact, I had previously asked if we could schedule this
> all until March. Marco from your team then sent an impatient email, so I
> said, alright, what about Feb 11 when I'm back. That's annoying for me
> but I figured I'd just shuffle everything around and prioritize this.
> Then, instead of waiting for that, you posted v1 of this patchset the
> next day. I asked you again. And now, while I'm away on the first
> holiday in a while with very little connectivity and no laptop, you post
> a v2. So I'm really annoyed. In order to avoid all doubt about this, let
> me then just NACK this, and I'll lift the nack when I'm back:
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>      Nacked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
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