File chrony-urandom.patch of Package chrony.19955

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File chrony-urandom.patch of Package chrony.19955

From 7c5bd948bb7e21fa0ee22f29e97748b2d0360319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 14:16:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] util: fall back to reading /dev/urandom when getrandom()
 blocks

With recent changes in the Linux kernel, the getrandom() system call may
block for a long time after boot on machines that don't have enough
entropy. It blocks the chronyd's initialization before it can detach
from the terminal and may cause a chronyd service to fail to start due
to a timeout.

At least for now, enable the GRND_NONBLOCK flag to make the system call
non-blocking and let the code fall back to reading /dev/urandom (which
never blocks) if the system call failed with EAGAIN or any other error.

This makes the start of chronyd non-deterministic with respect to files
that it needs to open and possibly also makes it slightly easier to
guess the transmit/receive timestamp in client requests until the
urandom source is fully initialized.
---
 util.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index 4b3e455..76417d5 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ get_random_bytes_getrandom(char *buf, unsigned int len)
       if (disabled)
         break;
 
-      if (getrandom(rand_buf, sizeof (rand_buf), 0) != sizeof (rand_buf)) {
+      if (getrandom(rand_buf, sizeof (rand_buf), GRND_NONBLOCK) != sizeof (rand_buf)) {
         disabled = 1;
         break;
       }
-- 
2.16.4

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