[PATCH v3] getrandom system call wrapper [BZ #17252]

Rical Jasan ricaljasan@pacific.net
Fri Sep 9 01:54:00 GMT 2016


On 09/08/2016 05:46 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 09/08/2016 01:44 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Here is a new attempt at providing the getrandom system call.
>>
>> I have retained the __getrandom symbol mangling.  The justification for
>> that is that getrandom is a fairly common name.  Application code might
>> use it for something else entirely and interpose their definition, so
>> that libraries cannot rely on it doing the right thing.  I think the
>> mangling is justified because it is hard to spot that getrandom is
>> broken due to interposition.  As <sys/random.h> is a new header, the
>> macro will be exposed to few applications.
>>
>> I have made the system call wrapper a cancellation point.  (If we
>> implement the simpler getentropy interface, it would not be a
>> cancellation point.)
> 
> Updated with Rical's suggestions from the other thread.
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian

Looks good to me!  Thanks for reviewing the review; I agree with all the
things you didn't change too.  :)

Rical



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