Message 274399 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

On QNAP's Linux Station (lxc based virtual environment), getrandom() syscall returns EPERM not ENOSYS when it's not available.

(HOST) uname -a Linux ******-NAS 3.12.6 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 00:57:44 CST 2016 x86_64 unknown

(HOST) /lib64/libc-2.19.so GNU C Library (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.6) stable release version 2.19, by Roland McGrath et al.

(LXC) uname -a Linux ubuntu_1604 3.12.6 #1 SMP Thu Sep 1 00:57:44 CST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

(LXC) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 GNU C Library (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.23-0ubuntu3) stable release version 2.23, by Roland McGrath et al.

(LXC) long n = syscall(SYS_getrandom, buffer, sizeof(buffer), flags); printf("SYS_getrandom: %ld (%d)\n", n, errno); => SYS_getrandom: -1 (1)

Proper fall back to /dev/urandom is not happening in this case, so most python app calling getrandom function fails. This includes apt, command-not-found etc.