rng-tools: start rngd early enough to actually be useful 3949/head
authorPhilip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 04:56:35 +0000 (21:56 -0700)
committerPhilip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 05:52:50 +0000 (22:52 -0700)
commit901ef617c7c913e94cfa88a5427d4a5511129fc8
tree6981efaca5fe1216fa0df978e7e9bbdccc3005be
parent3849b5b6d8acc55d8857ccfccb34012747518f2a
rng-tools: start rngd early enough to actually be useful

lighttpd starts at priority 50, but promptly calls getrandom() on
initialization (li_rand_reseed() and li_rand_device_bytes() from
server_init()). If /dev/urandom (which getrandom() uses by default)
doesn't have sufficient entropy, this will block.

Since Openwrt runs the startup scripts serially, this can block
initialization indefinitely.  I've seen 15-20 minutes typically.

Seeding the pool early on can quickly built sufficient entropy to
complete booting without blocking.

Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com>
utils/rng-tools/files/rngd.init