[OE-core] [PATCH] wic: improve generating disk system identifier

Jonathan Liu net147 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 10:53:39 UTC 2017


This should reduce the chance of generating 0xffffffff as the disk
system identifier.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py b/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py
index 51bdd3a984..5765bbb527 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/plugins/imager/direct.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 
 import logging
 import os
+import random
 import shutil
 import tempfile
 import uuid
@@ -303,7 +304,7 @@ class PartitionedImage():
                           # all partitions (in bytes)
         self.ptable_format = ptable_format  # Partition table format
         # Disk system identifier
-        self.identifier = int.from_bytes(os.urandom(4), 'little') or 0xffffffff
+        self.identifier = random.SystemRandom().randint(1, 0xffffffff)
 
         self.partitions = partitions
         self.partimages = []
-- 
2.13.2




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