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Doesn't this mean that non-blocking reads from /dev/urandom can now potentially return -EAGAIN (at e.g. very early boot time)? I think that's enough to subtly (nondeterministically) break userspace, in the short time window the entropy pool is not seeded enough, even if (C) and (D) do not hold.



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