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crypto: jitterentropy - replace long-held spinlock with mutex

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: jitterentropy - replace long-held spinlock with mutex jent_kcapi_random() serializes the shared jitterentropy state, but it currently holds a spinlock across the jent_read_entropy() call. That path performs expensive jitter collection and SHA3 conditioning, so parallel readers can trigger stalls as contending waiters spin for the same lock. To prevent non-preemptible lock hold, replace rng->jent_lock with a mutex so contended readers sleep instead of spinning on a shared lock held across expensive entropy generation.

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Linux
  • <ec427dc5286da1ed08f2d510e2147a7581b0cb02
  • =<6.18.*
  • =<7.0.*
  • <01d798e9feb30212952d4e992801ba6bd6a82351
  • =<*
  • <4c03e6eb98443dc4d6d422a9780034a5b75376b4
  • <ff734dbd9e2432601a6dcd167cfb0bf8a36d1880
  • ==4.2
  • <18216b8ab6904753eaf31baf453cb02ecd202ba4
  • =<6.12.*
  • <4.2
  • =<6.6.*