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| author | Stephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de> | 2021-11-21 17:14:20 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-01-27 12:54:12 +0300 |
| commit | 8a6371d84c5f80218ae35f31f26a5fb230ef4dba (patch) | |
| tree | e61ba5fa03b2d901ed32f8c030be6193aa2e24b4 /crypto | |
| parent | 240cf5d3cb5e4d3eb1b7abc83b54563fe992d306 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8a6371d84c5f80218ae35f31f26a5fb230ef4dba.tar.xz | |
crypto: jitter - consider 32 LSB for APT
[ Upstream commit 552d03a223eda3df84526ab2c1f4d82e15eaee7a ]
The APT compares the current time stamp with a pre-set value. The
current code only considered the 4 LSB only. Yet, after reviews by
mathematicians of the user space Jitter RNG version >= 3.1.0, it was
concluded that the APT can be calculated on the 32 LSB of the time
delta. Thi change is applied to the kernel.
This fixes a bug where an AMD EPYC fails this test as its RDTSC value
contains zeros in the LSB. The most appropriate fix would have been to
apply a GCD calculation and divide the time stamp by the GCD. Yet, this
is a significant code change that will be considered for a future
update. Note, tests showed that constantly the GCD always was 32 on
these systems, i.e. the 5 LSB were always zero (thus failing the APT
since it only considered the 4 LSB for its calculation).
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/jitterentropy.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/jitterentropy.c b/crypto/jitterentropy.c index 6e147c43fc18..37c4c308339e 100644 --- a/crypto/jitterentropy.c +++ b/crypto/jitterentropy.c @@ -265,7 +265,6 @@ static int jent_stuck(struct rand_data *ec, __u64 current_delta) { __u64 delta2 = jent_delta(ec->last_delta, current_delta); __u64 delta3 = jent_delta(ec->last_delta2, delta2); - unsigned int delta_masked = current_delta & JENT_APT_WORD_MASK; ec->last_delta = current_delta; ec->last_delta2 = delta2; @@ -274,7 +273,7 @@ static int jent_stuck(struct rand_data *ec, __u64 current_delta) * Insert the result of the comparison of two back-to-back time * deltas. */ - jent_apt_insert(ec, delta_masked); + jent_apt_insert(ec, current_delta); if (!current_delta || !delta2 || !delta3) { /* RCT with a stuck bit */ |