Add CHANGES entries for the DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature and its removal

Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9118)

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1fbea53682..c5cd38b6fd 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -9,7 +9,17 @@
 
  Changes between 1.1.1c and 1.1.1d [xx XXX xxxx]
 
-  *)
+  *) Revert the DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
+
+     The DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature added a select() call to wait for the
+     /dev/random device to become readable before reading from the
+     /dev/urandom device.
+
+     It turned out that this change had negative side effects on
+     performance which were not acceptable. After some discussion it
+     was decided to revert this feature and leave it up to the OS
+     resp. the platform maintainer to ensure a proper initialization
+     during early boot time.
 
  Changes between 1.1.1b and 1.1.1c [28 May 2019]
 
@@ -79,6 +89,16 @@
      (CVE-2019-1543)
      [Matt Caswell]
 
+  *) Add DEVRANDOM_WAIT feature for Linux systems
+
+     On older Linux systems where the getrandom() system call is not available,
+     OpenSSL normally uses the /dev/urandom device for seeding its CSPRNG.
+     Contrary to getrandom(), the /dev/urandom device will not block during
+     early boot when the kernel CSPRNG has not been seeded yet.
+
+     To mitigate this known weakness, use select() to wait for /dev/random to
+     become readable before reading from /dev/urandom.
+
   *) Ensure that SM2 only uses SM3 as digest algorithm
      [Paul Yang]