[Buildroot] [PATCH] util-linux: Bump to version 2.32

Trent Piepho tpiepho at impinj.com
Mon May 21 21:34:41 UTC 2018


Nevermind, I see I missed this change already being on buildroot/next.

If anyone wonders why mke2fs blocks for 2 seconds getting a filesystem
UUID on recent kernels on low boot entropy systems, it's because of the
problem described here.

On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 12:16 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> This version of util-linux includes a work-around for a kernel 4.16.4,
> 4.17 change in the way getrandom() works.  In early boot, getrandom()
> can now block for a very long time if there is insufficient entropy,
> which can happen on embedded systems or qemu where there are few entropy
> sources.  Users of libuuid from util-linux can be affected by this.
> 


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