Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:27:31 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r346250 - in head: share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/libkern sys/sys Message-ID: <CAG6CVpVN5pgUVJq8cF%2B0RzgkNjGr0exx5coHL=be7h6W-qDdxw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=Xb495Dhs8OMgMRCOFs1Miw1=sLubpgMs6btSsT8CFsw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201904151840.x3FIeaEQ009242@repo.freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=Xb495Dhs8OMgMRCOFs1Miw1=sLubpgMs6btSsT8CFsw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey Adrian, As discussed with John and Warner upthread, I hope to have a patch out for review later today to give folks a knob to disable this. It may even make sense to default it on, at least for !x86. I am happy to CC you on review if you like. Take care, Conrad On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:22 AM Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrot= e: > > > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 11:40, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Author: cem >> Date: Mon Apr 15 18:40:36 2019 >> New Revision: 346250 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346250 >> >> Log: >> random(4): Block read_random(9) on initial seeding > > > Sniffle, this broke on my mips boards whilst debugging why I'm seeing tra= nsmit crashes and other bad behaviours. if_arge has some hacks to randomly = allocate mac addresses if the board doesn't supply them. This is going to b= e a common thing to deal with during board bring-up before you do things li= ke, I dunno, make storage work. I'm going to fix if_arge to use the new API= to generate MAC addresses but there'll be other places where this will bit= e you. > > Please reconsider this a bit. I know people are trying to improve our sec= urity and cryptography support. But some of us are trying to use FreeBSD co= de in fun places and maybe occasionally do some more porting work. :-) > > > -adrian > >
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