kernel/linux.git/include/linux/random.h, branch v5.18.2

random: move randomize_page() into mm where it belongs

2022-05-30T07:24:08+00:00

commit 5ad7dd882e45d7fe432c32e896e2aaa0b21746ea upstream. randomize_page is an mm function. It is documented like one. It contains the history of one. It has the naming convention of one. It looks just like another very similar function in mm, randomize_stack_top(). And it has always been maintained and updated by mm people. There is no need for it to be in random.c. In the "which shape does not look like the other ones" test, pointing to randomize_page() is correct. So move randomize_page() into mm/util.c, right next to the similar randomize_stack_top() function. This commit contains no actual code changes. Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: make consistent use of buf and len

2022-05-30T07:24:08+00:00

commit a19402634c435a4eae226df53c141cdbb9922e7b upstream. The current code was a mix of "nbytes", "count", "size", "buffer", "in", and so forth. Instead, let's clean this up by naming input parameters "buf" (or "ubuf") and "len", so that you always understand that you're reading this variety of function argument. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: use proper return types on get_random_{int,long}_wait()

2022-05-30T07:24:08+00:00

commit 7c3a8a1db5e03d02cc0abb3357a84b8b326dfac3 upstream. Before these were returning signed values, but the API is intended to be used with unsigned values. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: remove extern from functions in header

2022-05-30T07:24:08+00:00

commit 7782cfeca7d420e8bb707613d4cfb0f7ff29bb3a upstream. Accoriding to the kernel style guide, having `extern` on functions in headers is old school and deprecated, and doesn't add anything. So remove them from random.h, and tidy up the file a little bit too. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init()

2022-05-30T07:24:07+00:00

commit 2f14062bb14b0fcfcc21e6dc7d5b5c0d25966164 upstream. Currently, start_kernel() adds latent entropy and the command line to the entropy bool *after* the RNG has been initialized, deferring when it's actually used by things like stack canaries until the next time the pool is seeded. This surely is not intended. Rather than splitting up which entropy gets added where and when between start_kernel() and random_init(), just do everything in random_init(), which should eliminate these kinds of bugs in the future. While we're at it, rename the awkwardly titled "rand_initialize()" to the more standard "random_init()" nomenclature. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "random: block in /dev/urandom"

2022-03-22T16:17:20+00:00

This reverts commit 6f98a4bfee72c22f50aedb39fb761567969865fe. It turns out we still can't do this. Way too many platforms that don't have any real source of randomness at boot and no jitter entropy because they don't even have a cycle counter. As reported by Guenter Roeck: "This causes a large number of qemu boot test failures for various architectures (arm, m68k, microblaze, sparc32, xtensa are the ones I observed). Common denominator is that boot hangs at 'Saving random seed:'" This isn't hugely unexpected - we tried it, it failed, so now we'll revert it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220322155820.GA1745955@roeck-us.net/ Reported-and-bisected-by: Guenter Roeck Cc: Jason Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

random: provide notifier for VM fork

2022-03-13T01:00:56+00:00

Drivers such as WireGuard need to learn when VMs fork in order to clear sessions. This commit provides a simple notifier_block for that, with a register and unregister function. When no VM fork detection is compiled in, this turns into a no-op, similar to how the power notifier works. Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one

2022-03-13T01:00:56+00:00

We previously rolled our own randomness readiness notifier, which only has two users in the whole kernel. Replace this with a more standard atomic notifier block that serves the same purpose with less code. Also unexport the symbols, because no modules use it, only unconditional builtins. The only drawback is that it's possible for a notification handler returning the "stop" code to prevent further processing, but given that there are only two users, and that we're unexporting this anyway, that doesn't seem like a significant drawback for the simplification we receive here. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

random: do not export add_vmfork_randomness() unless needed

2022-03-13T01:00:56+00:00

Since add_vmfork_randomness() is only called from vmgenid.o, we can guard it in CONFIG_VMGENID, similarly to how we do with add_disk_randomness() and CONFIG_BLOCK. If we ever have multiple things calling into add_vmfork_randomness(), we can add another shared Kconfig symbol for that, but for now, this is good enough. Even though add_vmfork_randomess() is a pretty small function, removing it means that there are only calls to crng_reseed(false) and none to crng_reseed(true), which means the compiler can constant propagate the false, removing branches from crng_reseed() and its descendants. Additionally, we don't even need the symbol to be exported if CONFIG_VMGENID is not a module, so conditionalize that too. Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

random: add mechanism for VM forks to reinitialize crng

2022-03-13T01:00:56+00:00

When a VM forks, we must immediately mix in additional information to the stream of random output so that two forks or a rollback don't produce the same stream of random numbers, which could have catastrophic cryptographic consequences. This commit adds a simple API, add_vmfork_ randomness(), for that, by force reseeding the crng. This has the added benefit of also draining the entropy pool and setting its timer back, so that any old entropy that was there prior -- which could have already been used by a different fork, or generally gone stale -- does not contribute to the accounting of the next 256 bits. Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld