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services: urandom-seed: Credit the entropy added to the PRNG. 

Partly fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/37501>.
Reported by Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>.

* gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-shepherd-service): In 'start'
method, add calls to 'add-to-entropy-count'.
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Ludovic Courtès 2019-10-05 22:03:06 +02:00
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@ -573,7 +573,13 @@ file systems, as well as corresponding @file{/etc/fstab} entries.")))
(lambda (seed)
(call-with-output-file "/dev/urandom"
(lambda (urandom)
(dump-port seed urandom))))))
(dump-port seed urandom)
;; Writing SEED to URANDOM isn't enough: we must
;; also tell the kernel to account for these
;; extra bits of entropy.
(let ((bits (* 8 (stat:size (stat seed)))))
(add-to-entropy-count urandom bits)))))))
;; Try writing from /dev/hwrng into /dev/urandom.
;; It seems that the file /dev/hwrng always exists, even
@ -590,7 +596,9 @@ file systems, as well as corresponding @file{/etc/fstab} entries.")))
(when buf
(call-with-output-file "/dev/urandom"
(lambda (urandom)
(put-bytevector urandom buf)))))
(put-bytevector urandom buf)
(let ((bits (* 8 (bytevector-length buf))))
(add-to-entropy-count urandom bits))))))
;; Immediately refresh the seed in case the system doesn't
;; shut down cleanly.