[pve-devel] [PATCH manager v4 7/9] ui: remove warning about entropy starvation of /dev/random

Filip Schauer f.schauer at proxmox.com
Tue Feb 18 12:11:00 CET 2025


Remove the warning about entropy-starvation when using /dev/random as
the entropy source. This concern no longer applies since the removal of
the blocking entropy pool in kernel version 5.6. [1] [2]

[1] https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/acd77500aa8a337baa6d853568c4b55aca48e20f
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/808575/

Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer at proxmox.com>
---
 www/manager6/qemu/RNGEdit.js | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/www/manager6/qemu/RNGEdit.js b/www/manager6/qemu/RNGEdit.js
index e34e2c08..097e08c3 100644
--- a/www/manager6/qemu/RNGEdit.js
+++ b/www/manager6/qemu/RNGEdit.js
@@ -35,12 +35,6 @@ Ext.define('PVE.qemu.RNGInputPanel', {
 		    limitWarning.setHidden(!!newVal);
 		},
 	    },
-	    '#source': {
-		change: function(el, newVal) {
-		    let limitWarning = this.lookupReference('sourceWarning');
-		    limitWarning.setHidden(newVal !== '/dev/random');
-		},
-	    },
 	},
     },
 
@@ -77,13 +71,6 @@ Ext.define('PVE.qemu.RNGInputPanel', {
 	labelWidth: 130,
 	emptyText: '1000',
     },
-    {
-	xtype: 'displayfield',
-	reference: 'sourceWarning',
-	value: gettext('Using /dev/random as entropy source is discouraged, as it can lead to host entropy starvation. /dev/urandom is preferred, and does not lead to a decrease in security in practice.'),
-	userCls: 'pmx-hint',
-	hidden: true,
-    },
     {
 	xtype: 'displayfield',
 	reference: 'limitWarning',
-- 
2.39.5





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