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From: Dan Gora <dg@adax.com>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	 Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] eal: choose initial PRNG seed source at runtime
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:04:17 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGyogRbauaNeh2npKpKJ9ifpWBoJhP0P84gtkwmSuWmWt0SSeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGyogRYA1qOhwhRJyTcbK=Xox1r1NThFsTvsmbeoLYux2-TVNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:01 PM Dan Gora <dg@adax.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:32 AM Mattias Rönnblom
> <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-04-23 01:42, Dan Gora wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > The following patches updates the rte_random subsystem to dynamically find
> > > the best source of the initial seed to the PRNG at run time.
> > >
> > > The first patch enables dynamic checking for the rdseed instruction and
> > > removes the requirement for it on the execution system.  It also ensures
> > > that the code to use the rdseed instruction is generated, even if the host
> > > compilation system does not support it (on x86 systems).
> > >
> > > The second patch emulates the getentropy() glibc function by reading bytes
> > > from /dev/urandom.  This removes an unnecessary dependency on glibc 2.25.
> > >
> > > v4:  Note that emulating getentropy by reading from /dev/urandom should
> > > never fail, so now the question is if we should just remove the rdseed
> > > method entirely since it's x86 only?  Should we remove the fallback to
> > > rte_get_tsc_cycles()?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > -----
> > > v2:
> > > * Fix patch apply issue.
> > > * dlclose() handle if dlsym() fails in __rte_getentropy().
> > >
> > > v3:
> > > * Fix error checking of dlsym() in __rte_getentropy().
> > > * Style changes recommended by Mattias.
> > >
> > > v4:
> > > * Replace dlopen/dlsym method with reading from /dev/urandom.
> > > * Try rdseed method before getentropy() method since the
> > >    latter should never fail.
> >
> >
> > I see no reason to prefer rdseed over the kernel.

It even says why right here:

> > > * Try rdseed method before getentropy() method since the
> > >    latter should never fail.

*******since the latter should never fail*******

Did  you see that part?

thanks
dan

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-29 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-21 19:54 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Dan Gora
2020-04-21 19:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: check for rdseed at run time for random seed Dan Gora
2020-04-22  8:22   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-04-21 19:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: resolve getentropy " Dan Gora
2020-04-21 21:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-21 21:08     ` Dan Gora
2020-04-22  8:28   ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-04-22 17:44     ` Dan Gora
2020-04-22 20:14       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-04-22 20:35         ` Dan Gora
2020-04-23 10:04           ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-23 17:38             ` Dan Gora
2020-04-27 12:44               ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-27 16:57                 ` Dan Gora
2020-04-30  8:41                   ` Luca Boccassi
2020-04-30 20:43                     ` Dan Gora
2020-05-01 10:33                       ` Luca Boccassi
2020-05-01 21:05                         ` Dan Gora
2020-05-04  8:04                           ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-05-04 14:13                             ` Dan Gora
2020-05-04 14:19                               ` Dan Gora
2020-06-02  5:10                                 ` Dan Gora
2020-06-09 15:37                                   ` Dan Gora
2020-06-10  8:15                                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-10  8:33                                       ` Luca Boccassi
2023-06-12 15:55                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-06-10  8:07                               ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-23 12:36           ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-04-23 17:27             ` Dan Gora
2020-04-21 20:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] eal: choose initial PRNG seed source at runtime Dan Gora
2020-04-21 20:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] eal: check for rdseed at run time for random seed Dan Gora
2020-04-21 20:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] eal: resolve getentropy " Dan Gora
2020-04-22 18:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] eal: choose initial PRNG seed source at runtime Dan Gora
2020-04-22 18:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] eal: check for rdseed at run time for random seed Dan Gora
2020-04-22 18:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] eal: resolve getentropy " Dan Gora
2020-04-22 23:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] eal: choose initial PRNG seed source at runtime Dan Gora
2020-04-22 23:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: check for rdseed at run time for random seed Dan Gora
2020-04-22 23:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] eal: emulate glibc getentropy for initial " Dan Gora
2020-04-23  2:39     ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-23 17:42       ` Dan Gora
2020-06-29  9:30     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-06-29 17:57       ` Dan Gora
2020-06-29 20:57         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-06-29  9:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] eal: choose initial PRNG seed source at runtime Mattias Rönnblom
2020-06-29 18:01     ` Dan Gora
2020-06-29 18:04       ` Dan Gora [this message]
2020-06-29 21:05       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-06-29 21:14         ` Dan Gora

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