Re: Logging a kernel message when blocking on entropy

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:07:04PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> All,
> 
> The following patch will cause a kernel message to be logged when a
> process blocks on /dev/random or some other randomness API.  It may
> help some users befuddled by pkgsrc builds blocking on /dev/random,
> and I'm finding it useful when testing changes aimed at fixing PR
> 55659.
> 
> OK to commit?

I'm not sure we want a user-triggerable kernel printf enabled by default.
This could be used to DOS the system (especially on serial consoles)

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