[LEDE-DEV] Update to util-linux 2.30.1 breaks x86_64 squashfs-combined

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Fri Sep 29 18:43:17 PDT 2017


> On Sep 29, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 09/29/2017 06:01 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>> [snip]
>> Tested on x86_64.  Seems to work.
> 
> To avoid patching mored packages in the future, would it make sense to
> LD_PRELOAD a library which overrides the SYS_getrandom() with a non
> blocking version/early return at appropriate times during system
> boot/upgrades which would suffer from low entropy?
> -- 
> Florian


That’s the stuff that security exploits are made of.

-Philip





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