Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] random: warn when kernel uses unseeded randomness

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:06:49PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> All the distro kernels I'm aware of have DEBUG_KERNEL=y.
> 
> Where all includes at least RHEL, SLES, Fedora, Ubuntu & Debian.
> 
> So it's still essentially default y.
> 
> Emitting *one* warning by default would be reasonable. That gives users
> who are interested something to chase, they can then turn on the option
> to get the full story.
> 
> Filling the dmesg buffer with repeated warnings is really not helpful.

I agree completely with all of this.  The following patch replaces the
current topmost patch on the random.git tree: