[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 2/3] V5 more sampling fun 2

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 11:34:17AM -0700, speck for Kees Cook wrote:
> > +			By default, this issue is mitigated by
> > +			microcode.  However, the microcode fix can cause
> > +			the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions to become
> > +			much slower.  Among other effects, this will
> > +			result in reduced throughput from /dev/urandom.
> 
> This is this true about /dev/urandom? I thought the RDRAND dependency
> had been removed?

That dependancy will be removed in 5.7-rc1 and I will be backporting
that to the stable kernels "soon".

thanks,

greg k-h