[Bug 1783810] Re: [SRU] blocks boot on core18

[Marc Deslauriers]

I think this is acceptable from a security point of view, especially
since this is an upstream change.

Before randutils.c implemented support for the getrandom() call, it used
/dev/urandom. The patch simply falls back to using /dev/urandom if there
is no enough entropy for getrandom().

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Title:
  [SRU] blocks boot on core18

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in util-linux source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The current version of libuuid is using getrandom() without the
  GRND_NONBLOCK flag. This means that in early boot the boot is blocked
  until the crng is initialized to "level=1" which on virtual machines
  may take some time.

  Upstream fixed this in https://github.com/karelzak/util-
  linux/commit/a9cf659e0508c1f56813a7d74c64f67bbc962538 and we should
  just backport the fix.

  [Impact]
   * Makes systems that use libuuid in early boot hang

  [Test Case]
   * boot a fresh core18 system with kernel 4.15

  [Regression Potential]
   * little, change is very targeted

  This is uploaded to the bionic-proposed queue now.

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