Bug 1347642
Summary: | Enable /dev/urandom as source of entropy for virtio-rng | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | David Jaša <djasa> |
Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 7.2 | CC: | dyuan, jtomko, rbalakri, yafu, yanqzhan, zpeng |
Target Milestone: | rc | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | libvirt-1.3.4-1.el7 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2016-11-03 18:47:20 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1074464 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1347669, 1374227 |
Description
David Jaša
2016-06-17 10:09:51 UTC
Fixed upstream by: commit 67f2b72723c242969c5282fcb9acf00cc01f2a54 Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso> CommitDate: 2016-04-26 11:43:33 -0400 conf: Drop restrictions on rng backend path Currently we only allow /dev/random and /dev/hwrng as host input for <rng><backend model='random'/> device. This was added after various upstream discussions in commit 4932ef45 However this restriction has generated quite a few complaints over the years, so a new discussion was initiated: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00987.html Several people suggested removing the restriction, and nobody really spoke up to defend it. So this patch drops the path restriction entirely https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074464 git describe: v1.3.4-rc1 contains: v1.3.4-rc1^0 Reproduce this bug with libvirt-1.2.17-13.el7_2.5.x86_64 Steps to reproduce: 1.Add this to <devices> in domain XML: <rng model='virtio'> <backend model='random'>/dev/urandom</backend> </rng> 2. # virsh start $domain error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to validate doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng Extra element devices in interleave Element domain failed to validate content Failed. Try again? [y,n,i,f,?]: 3. Define domain from an XML file with the rng device above: # virsh define testvm_bak.xml error: Failed to define domain from testvm_bak.xml error: XML error: file '/dev/urandom' is not a supported random source Verify this bug with libvirt-2.0.0-4.el7.x86_64 Steps to verify: 1. Add this to <devices> in domain XML: <rng model='virtio'> <backend model='random'>/dev/urandom</backend> </rng> 2. # virsh start $domain Domain started successfully. 3.Check the domain xml file # virsh dumpxml testvm|grep -A3 rng <rng model='virtio'> <backend model='random'>/dev/urandom</backend> <alias name='rng0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </rng> </devices> 4.login guest to check virtio-rng working status # lsmod |grep rng virtio_rng 13019 0 virtio_ring 21524 6 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_pci,virtio_rng,virtio_balloon,virtio_console virtio 15008 6 virtio_blk,virtio_net,virtio_pci,virtio_rng,virtio_balloon,virtio_console # dd if=/dev/hwrng of=/tmp/random ^C4699+1 records in 4699+0 records out 2405888 bytes (2.4 MB) copied, 3.88595 s, 619 kB/s Since the result is as expected, mark this bug as verified. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2577.html |