Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:58:16 -0500 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable ML <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dev/random warning on 10-STABLE after r292122 up till r292855 Message-ID: <CAMXt9NbOQtX2Xmk_F7PJOOeaj6VLSp6Wki1u7K4j%2BNkx9ZTMzA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK0m0c%2BWJvj4-A8OsoreW1XqKCdZ6gaCu3ybmW49A1XbGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMXt9NYVsryEH7JAY3wt6z67oONf=uvXWTdhUzsUSZbG0nZv3g@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BtpaK0m0c%2BWJvj4-A8OsoreW1XqKCdZ6gaCu3ybmW49A1XbGA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote: > >> All >> At NYC*BUG we are looking into a warning seen on FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64 >> starting at or about r292122 and still up till r292855. >> >> On boot dmesg logs the following warning not seen on 10.2-RELEASE amd64. >> >> random device not loaded; using insecure entropy >> >> The full dmesg can be seen here >> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2871 >> >> I checked in svn and there are no recent changes to sys/dev/random . >> >> Does anyone have any insight into this ? >> > > It's more of an informational message about seeding the random number > generator. Probably man 4 random is the best explanation. > > > > -- > Adam > Adam Not sure why I didn't think of that, thanks for the pointer; I didn't see any change in the relevant default sysctls . On a 10-RELEASE box no warning [msaad@ny4-c108-nocbox ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD ny4-c108-nocbox 10.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p7 #0: Mon Nov 2 14:19:39 UTC 2015 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 [msaad@ny4-c108-nocbox ~]$ sysctl kern.random kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 kern.random.sys.seeded: 1 kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 128 kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 96 kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 kern.random.live_entropy_sources: kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,dummy ----- On 10-STABLE with warning msaad@smokeping:~ % uname -a FreeBSD smokeping 10.2-STABLE FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE #0 r292855: Tue Dec 29 06:17:50 UTC 2015 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 msaad@smokeping:~ % sysctl kern.random kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 kern.random.sys.seeded: 1 kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 128 kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 96 kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 kern.random.live_entropy_sources: kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,dummy -- mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org
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