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Theodore Ts'o
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commit43838a23a0upstream. The crng_init variable has three states: 0: The CRNG is not initialized at all 1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases 2: The CRNG is fully initialized and we are sure it is safe for cryptographic use cases. The crng_ready() function should only return true once we are in the last state. This addresses CVE-2018-1108. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Fixes:e192be9d9a("random: replace non-blocking pool...") Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+ Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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