* dev_urandom() now calls py_getentropy(). Prepare the fallback to support
getentropy() failure and falls back on reading from /dev/urandom.
* Simplify dev_urandom(). pyurandom() is now responsible to call getentropy()
or getrandom(). Enhance also dev_urandom() and pyurandom() documentation.
* getrandom() is now preferred over getentropy(). The glibc 2.24 now implements
getentropy() on Linux using the getrandom() syscall. But getentropy()
doesn't support non-blocking mode. Since getrandom() is tried first, it's not
more needed to explicitly exclude getentropy() on Solaris. Replace:
"if defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY) && !defined(sun)"
with "if defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY)"
* Enhance py_getrandom() documentation. py_getentropy() now supports ENOSYS,
EPERM & EINTR
Issue #27776: The os.urandom() function does now block on Linux 3.17 and newer
until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized to increase the security.
This change is part of the PEP 524.
Modify py_getrandom() to not call PyErr_CheckSignals() if raise is zero.
_PyRandom_Init() is called very early in the Python initialization, so it's
safer to not call PyErr_CheckSignals().
* Add pyurandom() helper function to factorize the code
* don't call Py_FatalError() in helper functions, but only in _PyRandom_Init()
if pyurandom() failed, to uniformize the code
Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux.
Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes,
instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
Issue #26839: On Linux, os.urandom() now calls getrandom() with GRND_NONBLOCK
to fall back on reading /dev/urandom if the urandom entropy pool is not
initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.
Issue #26735: Fix os.urandom() on Solaris 11.3 and newer when reading more than
1,024 bytes: call getrandom() multiple times with a limit of 1024 bytes per
call.
function instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() function is
blocking to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such
high-quality entropy.
See the latest version of getrandom() manual page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html#NOTES
The behavior when a call to getrandom() that is blocked while reading from
/dev/urandom is interrupted by a signal handler depends on the
initialization state of the entropy buffer and on the request size, buflen.
If the entropy is not yet initialized, then the call will fail with the
EINTR error. If the entropy pool has been initialized and the request size
is large (buflen > 256), the call either succeeds, returning a partially
filled buffer, or fails with the error EINTR. If the entropy pool has been
initialized and the request size is small (buflen <= 256), then getrandom()
will not fail with EINTR. Instead, it will return all of the bytes that
have been requested.
Note: py_getrandom() calls getrandom() with flags=0.
available, syscall introduced in the Linux kernel 3.17. It is more reliable
and more secure, because it avoids the need of a file descriptor and waits
until the kernel has enough entropy.
* _Py_open() now raises exceptions on error. If open() fails, it raises an
OSError with the filename.
* _Py_open() now releases the GIL while calling open()
* Add _Py_open_noraise() when _Py_open() cannot be used because the GIL is not
held
Victor Stinner
Benjamin Peterson
Ned Deily
Martin Panter
Serhiy Storchaka
Steve Dower
Tim Golden