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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by cpeterso on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:13PM (#21128740)
Linus merged a jitter entropy fallback that calls the kernel's schedule() function in a loop:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by kzrdude on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:22AM (#21133827)
Classic maintainer stuff, love it. Getting adequate fixes in place, when nobody else has been there to submit it, so that the next release can have one bug less.
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