Issue #25003: os.urandom() doesn't use getentropy() on Solaris because

getentropy() is blocking, whereas os.urandom() should not block. getentropy()
is supported since Solaris 11.3.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c3068c4260b5287fd02945ece95f4e622a1e37b2..2655222cfefab871440fe4e22fbe4aea620af5ef 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Release date: tba
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #25003: os.urandom() doesn't use getentropy() on Solaris because
+  getentropy() is blocking, whereas os.urandom() should not block. getentropy()
+  is supported since Solaris 11.3.
+
 - Issue #25182: The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module is
   imported at startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler.
 

diff --git a/Python/random.c b/Python/random.c
index 3f307cf62a9f81cf19b4ef48d27ca5d9b653f261..af3d0bd0d57eff17819929e54de4fdc26a953137 100644 (file)
--- a/Python/random.c
+++ b/Python/random.c
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ win32_urandom(unsigned char *buffer, Py_ssize_t size, int raise)
     return 0;
 }
 
-#elif HAVE_GETENTROPY
+/* Issue #25003: Don' use getentropy() on Solaris (available since
+ * Solaris 11.3), it is blocking whereas os.urandom() should not block. */
+#elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY) && !defined(sun)
+#define PY_GETENTROPY 1
+
 /* Fill buffer with size pseudo-random bytes generated by getentropy().
    Return 0 on success, or raise an exception and return -1 on error.
 
@@ -275,7 +279,7 @@ _PyOS_URandom(void *buffer, Py_ssize_t size)
 
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
     return win32_urandom((unsigned char *)buffer, size, 1);
-#elif HAVE_GETENTROPY
+#elif defined(PY_GETENTROPY)
     return py_getentropy(buffer, size, 0);
 #else
     return dev_urandom_python((char*)buffer, size);
@@ -322,7 +326,7 @@ _PyRandom_Init(void)
     else {
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
         (void)win32_urandom(secret, secret_size, 0);
-#elif HAVE_GETENTROPY
+#elif defined(PY_GETENTROPY)
         (void)py_getentropy(secret, secret_size, 1);
 #else
         dev_urandom_noraise(secret, secret_size);
@@ -338,7 +342,7 @@ _PyRandom_Fini(void)
         CryptReleaseContext(hCryptProv, 0);
         hCryptProv = 0;
     }
-#elif HAVE_GETENTROPY
+#elif defined(PY_GETENTROPY)
     /* nothing to clean */
 #else
     dev_urandom_close();