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diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/python-2.7-getentropy-on-old-kernels.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/python-2.7-getentropy-on-old-kernels.patch deleted file mode 100644 index 5a09b4ac52..0000000000 --- a/gnu/packages/patches/python-2.7-getentropy-on-old-kernels.patch +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -This patch resolves a compatibility issue when compiled against glibc -2.25 -and run runder kernels < 3.17: - -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410175 - -Upstream bug URLs: - -https://bugs.python.org/issue29157 -https://bugs.python.org/issue29188 - -Patch adapted from upstream source repository: - -https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/01bdbad3e951014c58581635b94b22868537901c - -From 01bdbad3e951014c58581635b94b22868537901c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 -From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> -Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 11:10:41 +0100 -Subject: [PATCH] Don't use getentropy() on Linux - -Issue #29188: Support glibc 2.24 on Linux: don't use getentropy() function but -read from /dev/urandom to get random bytes, for example in os.urandom(). On -Linux, getentropy() is implemented which getrandom() is blocking mode, whereas -os.urandom() should not block. ---- - Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ - Python/random.c | 11 +++++++++-- - 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) - -diff --git a/Python/random.c b/Python/random.c -index 57c41ffcd6..000cb36938 100644 ---- a/Python/random.c -+++ b/Python/random.c -@@ -97,8 +97,15 @@ win32_urandom(unsigned char *buffer, Py_ssize_t size, int raise) - } - - /* Issue #25003: Don't use getentropy() on Solaris (available since -- * Solaris 11.3), it is blocking whereas os.urandom() should not block. */ --#elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY) && !defined(sun) -+ Solaris 11.3), it is blocking whereas os.urandom() should not block. -+ -+ Issue #29188: Don't use getentropy() on Linux since the glibc 2.24 -+ implements it with the getrandom() syscall which can fail with ENOSYS, -+ and this error is not supported in py_getentropy() and getrandom() is called -+ with flags=0 which blocks until system urandom is initialized, which is not -+ the desired behaviour to seed the Python hash secret nor for os.urandom(): -+ see the PEP 524 which was only implemented in Python 3.6. */ -+#elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY) && !defined(sun) && !defined(linux) - #define PY_GETENTROPY 1 - - /* Fill buffer with size pseudo-random bytes generated by getentropy(). --- -2.12.0 - |