Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 18:51, Grant Grundler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:35:23 +0000 Andrej Shadura <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Source: wpa
> > Source-Version: 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-1
> >
> > We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
> > wpa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
>
> For the record, the issue I reported was introduced in 4.16 kernel
> with this change:
>
> commit dc12baacb95f205948f64dc936a47d89ee110117
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
> Date:   Wed Apr 11 14:58:27 2018 -0400
>
>     random: use a different mixing algorithm for add_device_randomness()
>
> Some fixes were applied up to 4.18 kernel to improve things but the
> actual "fix" (or workaround) is to install rng-tools5 (worked for me).
> Per guidance  in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898814#62

Right. I wasn’t expecting getrandom to be a proper fix or fix at all,
to be honest, but at least it would be doing the better thing, if not
the right thing. I don’t think there’s more to be done on the wpa
side.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej

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