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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-05-03 15:14:32 +0300
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2022-05-14 00:59:23 +0300
commitcbe89e5a375a51bbb952929b93fa973416fea74e (patch)
tree7e679dde0dc8117d6a56934b74a497ee35dcb528 /drivers/char
parentb7b67d1391a831eb9de133e85a2230e2e81a2ce4 (diff)
downloadlinux-cbe89e5a375a51bbb952929b93fa973416fea74e.tar.xz
random: do not use batches when !crng_ready()
It's too hard to keep the batches synchronized, and pointless anyway, since in !crng_ready(), we're updating the base_crng key really often, where batching only hurts. So instead, if the crng isn't ready, just call into get_random_bytes(). At this stage nothing is performance critical anyhow. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 2d10942ba534..a9f887b92ba2 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -466,10 +466,8 @@ static void crng_pre_init_inject(const void *input, size_t len, bool account)
if (account) {
crng_init_cnt += min_t(size_t, len, CRNG_INIT_CNT_THRESH - crng_init_cnt);
- if (crng_init_cnt >= CRNG_INIT_CNT_THRESH) {
- ++base_crng.generation;
+ if (crng_init_cnt >= CRNG_INIT_CNT_THRESH)
crng_init = 1;
- }
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base_crng.lock, flags);
@@ -625,6 +623,11 @@ u64 get_random_u64(void)
warn_unseeded_randomness(&previous);
+ if (!crng_ready()) {
+ _get_random_bytes(&ret, sizeof(ret));
+ return ret;
+ }
+
local_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_u64.lock, flags);
batch = raw_cpu_ptr(&batched_entropy_u64);
@@ -659,6 +662,11 @@ u32 get_random_u32(void)
warn_unseeded_randomness(&previous);
+ if (!crng_ready()) {
+ _get_random_bytes(&ret, sizeof(ret));
+ return ret;
+ }
+
local_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_u32.lock, flags);
batch = raw_cpu_ptr(&batched_entropy_u32);