Otherwise, we might be seeding the RNG using bad randomness, which is dangerous. The one use of this function from within the kernel -- not from userspace -- is being removed (keys/big_key), so that call site isn't relevant in assessing this. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> --- crypto/rng.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/rng.c b/crypto/rng.c index f46dac5288b9..e042437e64b4 100644 --- a/crypto/rng.c +++ b/crypto/rng.c @@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ int crypto_rng_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen) if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; - get_random_bytes(buf, slen); + err = get_random_bytes_wait(buf, slen); + if (err) + goto out; seed = buf; } err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->seed(tfm, seed, slen); - +out: kzfree(buf); return err; } -- 2.13.0