Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom"

This reverts commit 6f98a4bfee.

It turns out we still can't do this.  Way too many platforms that don't
have any real source of randomness at boot and no jitter entropy because
they don't even have a cycle counter.

As reported by Guenter Roeck:

 "This causes a large number of qemu boot test failures for various
  architectures (arm, m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I
  observed).

  Common denominator is that boot hangs at 'Saving random seed:'"

This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll
revert it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220322155820.GA1745955@roeck-us.net/
Reported-and-bisected-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jason Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds
2022-03-22 09:17:20 -07:00
parent b47d5a4f6b
commit 0313bc278d
3 changed files with 57 additions and 19 deletions

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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ extern int unregister_random_ready_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern size_t __must_check get_random_bytes_arch(void *buf, size_t nbytes);
#ifndef MODULE
extern const struct file_operations random_fops;
extern const struct file_operations random_fops, urandom_fops;
#endif
u32 get_random_u32(void);