[jira] [Work started] (HADOOP-16810) Increase entropy to improve cryptographic randomness on precommit Linux VMs

["Ahmed Hussein (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-16810?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Work on HADOOP-16810 started by Ahmed Hussein.
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> Increase entropy to improve cryptographic randomness on precommit Linux VMs
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>                 Key: HADOOP-16810
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-16810
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Ahmed Hussein
>            Assignee: Ahmed Hussein
>            Priority: Blocker
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>          Time Spent: 20m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> I was investigating a JUnit test (MAPREDUCE-7079 :TestMRIntermediateDataEncryption is failing in precommit builds) that was consistently hanging on Linux VMs and failing Mapreduce pre-builds.
> I found that the test hangs slows or hangs indefinitely whenever Java reads the random file.
> I explored two different ways to get that test case to work properly on my local Linux VM running rel7:
> # To install "haveged" and "rng-tools" on the virtual machine running Rel7. Then, start rngd service {{sudo service rngd start}} . This will fix the problem for all the components on the image including java, native and any other component.
> # Change java configuration to load urandom
> {code:bash}
> sudo vim $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security
> ## Change the line “securerandom.source=file:/dev/random” to read: securerandom.source=file:/dev/./urandom
> {code}
> The first solution is better because this will fix the problem for everything that requires SSL/TLS or other services that depend upon encryption.
> Since the precommit build runs on Docker, then it would be best to mount {{/dev/urandom}} from the host as {{/dev/random}} into the container:
> {code:java}
> docker run -v /dev/urandom:/dev/random
> {code}
> For Yetus, we need to add the mount to the {{DOCKER_EXTRAARGS}} as follows:
> {code:java}
> DOCKER_EXTRAARGS+=("-v" "/dev/urandom:/dev/random")
> {code}
>  ...



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