systemd/SOURCES/0661-random-seed-clarify-one-comment.patch

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From 22a598fa626bf440127c1dd2a6b116514869752a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Franck Bui <fbui@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:54:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] random-seed: clarify one comment
(cherry picked from commit 46e0b5dca7fa5368bccbf30a7d2569d93d994a44)
Related: RHEL-16952
---
src/random-seed/random-seed.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/random-seed/random-seed.c b/src/random-seed/random-seed.c
index 7782509572..22ddf659ae 100644
--- a/src/random-seed/random-seed.c
+++ b/src/random-seed/random-seed.c
@@ -249,12 +249,13 @@ static int save_seed_file(
if (!buf)
return log_oom();
- /* Let's make this whole job asynchronous, i.e. let's make ourselves a barrier for proper
- * initialization of the random pool. */
k = getrandom(buf, seed_size, GRND_NONBLOCK);
if (k < 0 && errno == EAGAIN && synchronous) {
+ /* If we're asked to make ourselves a barrier for proper initialization of the random pool
+ * make this whole job synchronous by asking getrandom() to wait until the requested number
+ * of random bytes is available. */
log_notice("Kernel entropy pool is not initialized yet, waiting until it is.");
- k = getrandom(buf, seed_size, 0); /* retry synchronously */
+ k = getrandom(buf, seed_size, 0);
}
if (k < 0)
log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to read random data with getrandom(), falling back to /dev/urandom: %m");