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agent: Kludge to mitigate blocking calls in Libgcrypt.
* agent/gpg-agent.c (agent_libgcrypt_progress_cb): Sleep for 100ms on "need_entropy". -- During key generation Libgrypt will read from /dev/random which may block. Libgcrypt is not nPth aware and thus the entire process will block. Fortunately there is also a select with a short timeout to run the progress callback. We detect this in gpg-agent and introduce a short delay to give other threads (i.e. connections) an opportunity to run. This alone is not sufficient, an updated Libgpg-error is also required to make the lock functions nPth aware. Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
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@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ static pid_t parent_pid = (pid_t)(-1);
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static int active_connections;
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/* This object is used to dispatch progress messages from Libgcrypt to
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* the right thread. Given that we won't have at max a few dozen
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* connections at the same time using a linked list is the easiest way
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* to handle this. */
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* the right thread. Given that we will have at max only a few dozen
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* connections at a time, using a linked list is the easiest way to
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* handle this. */
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struct progress_dispatch_s
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{
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struct progress_dispatch_s *next;
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@ -1747,6 +1747,17 @@ agent_libgcrypt_progress_cb (void *data, const char *what, int printchar,
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break;
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if (dispatch && dispatch->cb)
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dispatch->cb (dispatch->ctrl, what, printchar, current, total);
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/* If Libgcrypt tells us that it needs more entropy, we better take
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* a nap to give other threads a chance to run. Note that Libgcrypt
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* does not know about nPth and thus when it selects and reads from
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* /dev/random this will block the process. Maybe we should add a
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* function similar to gpgrt_set_syscall_clamp to Libgcrypt or use
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* those clamps directly. For now sleeping for 100ms seems to be
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* appropriate. */
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if (what && !strcmp (what, "need_entropy"))
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npth_usleep (100000);
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}
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