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+virtio-rng backend should use getentropy() syscall when available
+
+According to https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/VirtIORNG the default backend for `virtio-rng-pci` is `/dev/random`.  Alternately, the user can point it to a different backend file, like `/dev/urandom`.
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+However, both of these files have suboptimal behavior in one way or another, as documented in `random(7)`.  Instead, the default behavior should be to pull the requested octets from the `getrandom()` system call, if available, called with no flags set.
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+To be clear, the problem with using /dev/urandom as a backend is that it's possible to feed data from an uninitialized pool into the guest.
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+and the problem with using /dev/random as a backend is that it's possible for a guest to starve the other host (and other guests) of entropy, since it pulls from the blocking pool.
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+getrandom() only blocks when the CSPRNG is not initialized, otherwise it never blocks.  this is the right behavior by default.
+
+any word on this?  If this is not considered for adoption, i would like to know the reason, so that we can have better predictions about what to do for entropy in a QEMU system.
+
+Feel free to send some patches to implement this! Alternatively, you could also try to write a mail to the virtio-rng maintainer (see the MAINTAINER file in the top directory of the sources), maybe he can help.
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+Yes, using getrandom() in qemu by default on systems that support it will be an improvement, and is the right approach.
+
+rng-builtin is the new RNG default backend for virtio-rng and is based on getrandom().
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+0198c2621a1e virtio-rng: change default backend to rng-builtin
+5f7655f6ef15 virtio-rng: Keep the default backend out of VirtIORNGConf
+6c4e9d487fea rng-builtin: add an RNG backend that uses qemu_guest_getrandom()
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