[issue26839] Python 3.5 running on Linux kernel 3.17+ can block at startup or on importing the random module on getrandom()

[Colm Buckley]

Colm Buckley added the comment:

The attached patch (against tip) is a very quick attempt to implement the desired behavior:

* add a "nonblocking" argument to py_getrandom()
* dev_urandom_python() sets this to 0, to request blocking operation
* dev_urandom_noraise() sets this to 1 to request non-blocking

As far as I can tell, dev_urandom_noraise() is only called by _PyRandom_Init() so only the hash secret initialization will be affected.

Victor; can you take a look and let me know what you think? This probably needs some comments etc. before pushing. I'm also a little unsure about the rest of the logic in dev_urandom_noraise - it should probably also be modified to not block in the event that urandom is unavailable.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43278/nonblocking_urandom_noraise.patch

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