[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] openssl: Fix longer booting times by unblocking getrandom

[Petr Štetiar]

Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen at gmail.com> [2019-03-15 13:57:41]:

Hi,

> I had a similar problem on some x86-devices.  The problem is that
> OpenWRT-devices are so "quiet" that it takes a while before a sufficient
> amount of entropy is generated.

I don't see it as problem of devices, I see it more as a problem of the
implementation of getrandom syscall in Linux kernel, musl libc (blocking
getentropy) and OpenSSL (blocking getrandom). I find it quite amusing, that
following:

 $ cat /etc/rc.local
 cat /dev/random &
 getrandom 1 | hexdump > /tmp/getrandom.log
 exit 0

would never finish booting on my QEMU machine.

> Instead of disabling the blocking getrandom()-call, what I did to "solve"
> the issue was to install the haveged-packet on devices where I could not
> find a driver for the hardware generator.

Or we can switch to systemd :-) Putting jokes aside, I'm not sure if we want
to add another dependency just because we've bumped OpenSSL.

-- ynezz

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