Re: [PATCH v5 REPOST 0/6] fix hw_random stuck

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Dec 22 2014 - 07:05:40 EST


On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 04:50:34PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> When I hotunplug a busy virtio-rng device or try to access
> hwrng attributes in non-smp guest, it gets stuck.
>
> My hotplug tests:
>
> | test 0:
> | hotunplug rng device from qemu monitor
> |
> | test 1:
> | guest) # dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/null &
> | hotunplug rng device from qemu monitor
> |
> | test 2:
> | guest) # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null &
> | hotunplug rng device from qemu monitor
> |
> | test 4:
> | guest) # dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/null &
> | cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_*
> |
> | test 5:
> | guest) # dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/null
> | cancel dd process after 10 seconds
> | guest) # dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/dev/null &
> | hotunplug rng device from qemu monitor
> |
> | test 6:
> | use a fifo as rng backend, execute test 0 ~ 5 with no input of fifo

All applied. Thanks a lot!
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