random: print a warning for the first ten uninitialized random users
Since systemd is consistently using /dev/urandom before it is
initialized, we can't see the other potentially dangerous users of
/dev/urandom immediately after boot. So print the first ten such
complaints instead.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 4e2627a..d057438 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1458,12 +1458,16 @@
static ssize_t
urandom_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos)
{
+ static int maxwarn = 10;
int ret;
- if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0))
- printk_once(KERN_NOTICE "random: %s urandom read "
- "with %d bits of entropy available\n",
- current->comm, nonblocking_pool.entropy_total);
+ if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0) &&
+ maxwarn > 0) {
+ maxwarn--;
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE "random: %s: uninitialized urandom read "
+ "(%zd bytes read, %d bits of entropy available)\n",
+ current->comm, nbytes, nonblocking_pool.entropy_total);
+ }
nbytes = min_t(size_t, nbytes, INT_MAX >> (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3));
ret = extract_entropy_user(&nonblocking_pool, buf, nbytes);