random(4) update causes mips compile fail | mips boot fail

[Mark R V Murray]

On 7 Sep 2013, at 19:36, Sean Bruno <sean_bruno at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 18:39 +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
>> On 7 Sep 2013, at 17:43, Sean Bruno <sean_bruno at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> trying to enable random on my DIR-825 kernconf I get this on boot:
>>> 
>>> Configuration file: /etc/cfg/hostapd.wlan0.conf
>>> Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 00:00:88:88:22:22 and ssid "TESTBRUNO"
>>> Entropy device is blocking
>> 
>> Please make a change to sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c;
>> 
>> Around line 82, please change from ".seeded = 0" to ".seeded = 1".
>> 
>> If that works, then your report above with the "Entropy device is blocking."
>> is trying to read random numbers before /dev/random is secure; this is a BAD
>> security problem. 
>> 
>> M
> 
> 
> Looks like it does indeed work if that is set to 1.  
> 
> This "DIR-825" config, should be loading random as a module, not built
> into the kernel due to size limitations of the kernel on this board.

Hmm. I'll set it back to 1, but this is technically a security issue.

Thanks for the report back, and sorry for the hassles!

M
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Mark R V Murray

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