Alejandro Colomar ac8b81c2b7 Prefer getrandom(3)/getentropy(3) over arc4random(3bsd) ...

arc4random(3) without kernel support is unsafe, as it can't know when to
drop the buffer.  Since we depend on libbsd since recently, we have
arc4random(3) functions always available, and thus, this code would have
always called arc4random_buf(3bsd), which is unsafe.  Put it after some
better alternatives, at least until in a decade or so all systems have a
recent enough glibc.

glibc implements arc4random(3) safely, since it's just a wrapper around
getrandom(2).

Link: <https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20220722122137.3270666-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org/>
Link: <https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/5c29df04-6283-9eee-6648-215b52cfa26b@cs.ucla.edu/T/>
Cc: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Cc: Björn Esser <besser82@fedoraproject.org>
Reviewed-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

2023-01-16 10:12:31 +01:00

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