- 13 Mar, 2022 3 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
We leave around these old sysctls for compatibility, and we keep them "writable" for compatibility, but even after writing, we should keep reporting the same value. This is consistent with how userspaces tend to use sysctl_random_write_wakeup_bits, writing to it, and then later reading from it and using the value. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by:
Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This isn't used by anything or anywhere, but we can't delete it due to compatibility. So at least give it the correct value of what it's supposed to be instead of a garbage one. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This topic has come up countless times, and usually doesn't go anywhere. This time I thought I'd bring it up with a slightly narrower focus, updated for some developments over the last three years: we finally can make /dev/urandom always secure, in light of the fact that our RNG is now always seeded. Ever since Linus' 50ee7529 ("random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it"), the RNG does a haveged-style jitter dance around the scheduler, in order to produce entropy (and credit it) for the case when we're stuck in wait_for_random_bytes(). How ever you feel about the Linus Jitter Dance is beside the point: it's been there for three years and usually gets the RNG initialized in a second or so. As a matter of fact, this is what happens currently when people use getrandom(). It's already there and working, and most people have been using it for years without realizing. So, given that the kernel has grown this mechanism for seeding itself from nothing, and that this procedure happens pretty fast, maybe there's no point any longer in having /dev/urandom give insecure bytes. In the past we didn't want the boot process to deadlock, which was understandable. But now, in the worst case, a second goes by, and the problem is resolved. It seems like maybe we're finally at a point when we can get rid of the infamous "urandom read hole". The one slight drawback is that the Linus Jitter Dance relies on random_ get_entropy() being implemented. The first lines of try_to_generate_ entropy() are: stack.now = random_get_entropy(); if (stack.now == random_get_entropy()) return; On most platforms, random_get_entropy() is simply aliased to get_cycles(). The number of machines without a cycle counter or some other implementation of random_get_entropy() in 2022, which can also run a mainline kernel, and at the same time have a both broken and out of date userspace that relies on /dev/urandom never blocking at boot is thought to be exceedingly low. And to be clear: those museum pieces without cycle counters will continue to run Linux just fine, and even /dev/urandom will be operable just like before; the RNG just needs to be seeded first through the usual means, which should already be the case now. On systems that really do want unseeded randomness, we already offer getrandom(GRND_INSECURE), which is in use by, e.g., systemd for seeding their hash tables at boot. Nothing in this commit would affect GRND_INSECURE, and it remains the means of getting those types of random numbers. This patch goes a long way toward eliminating a long overdue userspace crypto footgun. After several decades of endless user confusion, we will finally be able to say, "use any single one of our random interfaces and you'll be fine. They're all the same. It doesn't matter." And that, I think, is really something. Finally all of those blog posts and disagreeing forums and contradictory articles will all become correct about whatever they happened to recommend, and along with it, a whole class of vulnerabilities eliminated. With very minimal downside, we're finally in a position where we can make this change. Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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- 28 Feb, 2022 3 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Taking spinlocks from IRQ context is generally problematic for PREEMPT_RT. That is, in part, why we take trylocks instead. However, a spin_try_lock() is also problematic since another spin_lock() invocation can potentially PI-boost the wrong task, as the spin_try_lock() is invoked from an IRQ-context, so the task on CPU (random task or idle) is not the actual owner. Additionally, by deferring the crng pre-init loading to the worker, we can use the cryptographic hash function rather than xor, which is perhaps a meaningful difference when considering this data has only been through the relatively weak fast_mix() function. The biggest downside of this approach is that the pre-init loading is now deferred until later, which means things that need random numbers after interrupts are enabled, but before workqueues are running -- or before this particular worker manages to run -- are going to get into trouble. Hopefully in the real world, this window is rather small, especially since this code won't run until 64 interrupts had occurred. Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
random_get_entropy() returns a cycles_t, not an unsigned long, which is sometimes 64 bits on various 32-bit platforms, including x86. Conversely, jiffies is always unsigned long. This commit fixes things to use cycles_t for fields that use random_get_entropy(), named "cycles", and unsigned long for fields that use jiffies, named "now". It's also good to mix in a cycles_t and a jiffies in the same way for both add_device_randomness and add_timer_randomness, rather than using xor in one case. Finally, we unify the order of these volatile reads, always reading the more precise cycles counter, and then jiffies, so that the cycle counter is as close to the event as possible. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Rather than hard coding various lengths, we can use the right constants. Strings should be `char *` while buffers should be `u8 *`. Rather than have a nonsensical and unused maxlength, just remove it. Finally, use snprintf instead of sprintf, just out of good hygiene. As well, remove the old comment about returning a binary UUID via the binary sysctl syscall. That syscall was removed from the kernel in 5.5, and actually, the "uuid_strategy" function and related infrastructure for even serving it via the binary sysctl syscall was removed with 894d2491 ("sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support") back in 2.6.33. Reviewed-by:
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- 24 Feb, 2022 2 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
The only time that we need to wake up /dev/random writers on RNDCLEARPOOL/RNDZAPPOOL is when we're changing from a value that is greater than or equal to POOL_MIN_BITS to zero, because if we're changing from below POOL_MIN_BITS to zero, the writers are already unblocked. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
When the interrupt handler does not have a valid cycle counter, it calls get_reg() to read a register from the irq stack, in round-robin. Currently it does this assuming that registers are 32-bit. This is _probably_ the case, and probably all platforms without cycle counters are in fact 32-bit platforms. But maybe not, and either way, it's not quite correct. This commit fixes that to deal with `unsigned long` rather than `u32`. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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- 21 Feb, 2022 32 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
For the irq randomness fast pool, rather than having to use expensive atomics, which were visibly the most expensive thing in the entire irq handler, simply take care of the extreme edge case of resetting count to zero in the cpuhp online handler, just after workqueues have been reenabled. This simplifies the code a bit and lets us use vanilla variables rather than atomics, and performance should be improved. As well, very early on when the CPU comes up, while interrupts are still disabled, we clear out the per-cpu crng and its batches, so that it always starts with fresh randomness. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Acked-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
add_hwgenerator_randomness() is a function implemented and documented inside of random.c. It is the way that hardware RNGs push data into it. Therefore, it should be declared in random.h. Otherwise sparse complains with: random.c:1137:6: warning: symbol 'add_hwgenerator_randomness' was not declared. Should it be static? The alternative would be to include hw_random.h into random.c, but that wouldn't really be good for anything except slowing down compile time. Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by:
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Reviewed-by:
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This has no real functional change, as crng_pre_init_inject() (and before that, crng_slow_init()) always checks for == 0, not >= 2. So correct the outer unlocked change to reflect that. Before this used crng_ready(), which was not correct. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
crng_fast_load() and crng_slow_load() have different semantics: - crng_fast_load() xors and accounts with crng_init_cnt. - crng_slow_load() hashes and doesn't account. However add_hwgenerator_randomness() can afford to hash (it's called from a kthread), and it should account. Additionally, ones that can afford to hash don't need to take a trylock but can take a normal lock. So, we combine these into one function, crng_pre_init_inject(), which allows us to control these in a uniform way. This will make it simpler later to simplify this all down when the time comes for that. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Since rand_initialize() is run while interrupts are still off and nothing else is running, we don't need to repeatedly take and release the pool spinlock, especially in the RDSEED loop. Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
On PREEMPT_RT, it's problematic to take spinlocks from hard irq handlers. We can fix this by deferring to a workqueue the dumping of the fast pool into the input pool. We accomplish this with some careful rules on fast_pool->count: - When it's incremented to >= 64, we schedule the work. - If the top bit is set, we never schedule the work, even if >= 64. - The worker is responsible for setting it back to 0 when it's done. There are two small issues around using workqueues for this purpose that we work around. The first issue is that mix_interrupt_randomness() might be migrated to another CPU during CPU hotplug. This issue is rectified by checking that it hasn't been migrated (after disabling irqs). If it has been migrated, then we set the count to zero, so that when the CPU comes online again, it can requeue the work. As part of this, we switch to using an atomic_t, so that the increment in the irq handler doesn't wipe out the zeroing if the CPU comes back online while this worker is running. The second issue is that, though relatively minor in effect, we probably want to make sure we get a consistent view of the pool onto the stack, in case it's interrupted by an irq while reading. To do this, we don't reenable irqs until after the copy. There are only 18 instructions between the cli and sti, so this is a pretty tiny window. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Acked-by:
Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Now that we've re-documented the various sections, we can remove the outdated text here and replace it with a high-level overview. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This pulls all of the sysctl-focused functions into the sixth labeled section. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This pulls all of the userspace read/write-focused functions into the fifth labeled section. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This pulls all of the entropy collection-focused functions into the fourth labeled section. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This pulls all of the entropy extraction-focused functions into the third labeled section. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This pulls all of the crng-focused functions into the second labeled section. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This pulls all of the readiness waiting-focused functions into the first labeled section. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This is purely cosmetic. Future work involves figuring out which of these headers we need and which we don't. Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This really adds nothing at all useful. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In preparation for separating responsibilities, break out the entropy count management part of crng_reseed() into its own function. No functional changes. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the irq handler, we fill out 16 bytes differently on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and for 32-bit vs 64-bit cycle counters, which doesn't always correspond with the bitness of the platform. Whether or not you like this strangeness, it is a matter of fact. But it might not be a fact you well realized until now, because the code that loaded the irq info into 4 32-bit words was quite confusing. Instead, this commit makes everything explicit by having separate (compile-time) branches for 32-bit and 64-bit types. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Convert the current license into the SPDX notation of "(GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause)". This infers GPL-2.0 from the text "ALTERNATIVELY, this product may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, in which case the provisions of the GPL are required INSTEAD OF the above restrictions" and it infers BSD-3-Clause from the verbatim BSD 3 clause license in the file. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Reviewed-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
These explicit tracepoints aren't really used and show sign of aging. It's work to keep these up to date, and before I attempted to keep them up to date, they weren't up to date, which indicates that they're not really used. These days there are better ways of introspecting anyway. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
With tools like kbench9000 giving more finegrained responses, and this basically never having been used ever since it was initially added, let's just get rid of this. There *is* still work to be done on the interrupt handler, but this really isn't the way it's being developed. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Now that we have an explicit base_crng generation counter, we don't need a separate one for batched entropy. Rather, we can just move the generation forward every time we change crng_init state or update the base_crng key. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Dominik Brodowski authored
crng_init is protected by primary_crng->lock. Therefore, we need to hold this lock when increasing crng_init to 2. As we shouldn't hold this lock for too long, only hold it for those parts which require protection. Signed-off-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This buffer may contain entropic data that shouldn't stick around longer than needed, so zero out the temporary buffer at the end of write_pool(). Reviewed-by:
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In 79a84687 ("random: check for increase of entropy_count because of signed conversion"), a number of checks were added around what values were passed to account(), because account() was doing fancy fixed point fractional arithmetic, and a user had some ability to pass large values directly into it. One of things in that commit was limiting those values to INT_MAX >> 6. The first >> 3 was for bytes to bits, and the next >> 3 was for bits to 1/8 fractional bits. However, for several years now, urandom reads no longer touch entropy accounting, and so this check serves no purpose. The current flow is: urandom_read_nowarn()-->get_random_bytes_user()-->chacha20_block() Of course, we don't want that size_t to be truncated when adding it into the ssize_t. But we arrive at urandom_read_nowarn() in the first place either via ordinary fops, which limits reads to MAX_RW_COUNT, or via getrandom() which limits reads to INT_MAX. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
We've been using a flurry of int, unsigned int, size_t, and ssize_t. Let's unify all of this into size_t where it makes sense, as it does in most places, and leave ssize_t for return values with possible errors. In addition, keeping with the convention of other functions in this file, functions that are dealing with raw bytes now take void * consistently instead of a mix of that and u8 *, because much of the time we're actually passing some other structure that is then interpreted as bytes by the function. We also take the opportunity to fix the outdated and incorrect comment in get_random_bytes_arch(). Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Since we have a hash function that's really fast, and the goal of crng_slow_load() is reportedly to "touch all of the crng's state", we can just hash the old state together with the new state and call it a day. This way we dont need to reason about another LFSR or worry about various attacks there. This code is only ever used at early boot and then never again. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Rather than the clunky NUMA full ChaCha state system we had prior, this commit is closer to the original "fast key erasure RNG" proposal from <https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html>, by simply treating ChaCha keys on a per-cpu basis. All entropy is extracted to a base crng key of 32 bytes. This base crng has a birthdate and a generation counter. When we go to take bytes from the crng, we first check if the birthdate is too old; if it is, we reseed per usual. Then we start working on a per-cpu crng. This per-cpu crng makes sure that it has the same generation counter as the base crng. If it doesn't, it does fast key erasure with the base crng key and uses the output as its new per-cpu key, and then updates its local generation counter. Then, using this per-cpu state, we do ordinary fast key erasure. Half of this first block is used to overwrite the per-cpu crng key for the next call -- this is the fast key erasure RNG idea -- and the other half, along with the ChaCha state, is returned to the caller. If the caller desires more than this remaining half, it can generate more ChaCha blocks, unlocked, using the now detached ChaCha state that was just returned. Crypto-wise, this is more or less what we were doing before, but this simply makes it more explicit and ensures that we always have backtrack protection by not playing games with a shared block counter. The flow looks like this: ──extract()──► base_crng.key ◄──memcpy()───┐ │ │ └──chacha()──────┬─► new_base_key └─► crngs[n].key ◄──memcpy()───┐ │ │ └──chacha()───┬─► new_key └─► random_bytes │ └────► There are a few hairy details around early init. Just as was done before, prior to having gathered enough entropy, crng_fast_load() and crng_slow_load() dump bytes directly into the base crng, and when we go to take bytes from the crng, in that case, we're doing fast key erasure with the base crng rather than the fast unlocked per-cpu crngs. This is fine as that's only the state of affairs during very early boot; once the crng initializes we never use these paths again. In the process of all this, the APIs into the crng become a bit simpler: we have get_random_bytes(buf, len) and get_random_bytes_user(buf, len), which both do what you'd expect. All of the details of fast key erasure and per-cpu selection happen only in a very short critical section of crng_make_state(), which selects the right per-cpu key, does the fast key erasure, and returns a local state to the caller's stack. So, we no longer have a need for a separate backtrack function, as this happens all at once here. The API then allows us to extend backtrack protection to batched entropy without really having to do much at all. The result is a bit simpler than before and has fewer foot guns. The init time state machine also gets a lot simpler as we don't need to wait for workqueues to come online and do deferred work. And the multi-core performance should be increased significantly, by virtue of having hardly any locking on the fast path. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
During crng_init == 0, we never credit entropy in add_interrupt_ randomness(), but instead dump it directly into the primary_crng. That's fine, except for the fact that we then wind up throwing away that entropy later when we switch to extracting from the input pool and xoring into (and later in this series overwriting) the primary_crng key. The two other early init sites -- add_hwgenerator_randomness()'s use crng_fast_load() and add_device_ randomness()'s use of crng_slow_load() -- always additionally give their inputs to the input pool. But not add_interrupt_randomness(). This commit fixes that shortcoming by calling mix_pool_bytes() after crng_fast_load() in add_interrupt_randomness(). That's partially verboten on PREEMPT_RT, where it implies taking spinlock_t from an IRQ handler. But this also only happens during early boot and then never again after that. Plus it's a trylock so it has the same considerations as calling crng_fast_load(), which we're already using. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Continuing the reasoning of "random: ensure early RDSEED goes through mixer on init", we don't want RDRAND interacting with anything without going through the mixer function, as a backdoored CPU could presumably cancel out data during an xor, which it'd have a harder time doing when being forced through a cryptographic hash function. There's actually no need at all to be calling RDRAND in write_pool(), because before we extract from the pool, we always do so with 32 bytes of RDSEED hashed in at that stage. Xoring at this stage is needless and introduces a minor liability. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Continuing the reasoning of "random: use RDSEED instead of RDRAND in entropy extraction" from this series, at init time we also don't want to be xoring RDSEED directly into the crng. Instead it's safer to put it into our entropy collector and then re-extract it, so that it goes through a hash function with preimage resistance. As a matter of hygiene, we also order these now so that the RDSEED byte are hashed in first, followed by the bytes that are likely more predictable (e.g. utsname()). Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This is a preparatory commit for the following one. We simply inline the various functions that rand_initialize() calls that have no other callers. The compiler was doing this anyway before. Doing this will allow us to reorganize this after. We can then move the trust_cpu and parse_trust_cpu definitions a bit closer to where they're actually used, which makes the code easier to read. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
As the comment said, this is indeed a "hack". Since it was introduced, it's been a constant state machine nightmare, with lots of subtle early boot issues and a wildly complex set of machinery to keep everything in sync. Rather than continuing to play whack-a-mole with this approach, this commit simply removes it entirely. This commit is preparation for "random: use simpler fast key erasure flow on per-cpu keys" in this series, which introduces a simpler (and faster) mechanism to accomplish the same thing. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by:
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