When /dev/random was directly connected with entropy extraction, without
any expansion stage, extract_buf() was called for every 10 bytes of data
read from /dev/random. For that reason, RDRAND was used rather than
RDSEED. At the same time, crng_reseed() was still only called every 5
minutes, so there RDSEED made sense.
Those olden days were also a time when the entropy collector did not use
a cryptographic hash function, which meant most bets were off in terms
of real preimage resistance. For that reason too it didn't matter
_that_ much whether RDSEED was mixed in before or after entropy
extraction; both choices were sort of bad.
But now we have a cryptographic hash function at work, and with that we
get real preimage resistance. We also now only call extract_entropy()
every 5 minutes, rather than every 10 bytes. This allows us to do two
important things.
First, we can switch to using RDSEED in extract_entropy(), as Dominik
suggested. Second, we can ensure that RDSEED input always goes into the
cryptographic hash function with other things before being used
directly. This eliminates a category of attacks in which the CPU knows
the current state of the crng and knows that we're going to xor RDSEED
into it, and so it computes a malicious RDSEED. By going through our
hash function, it would require the CPU to compute a preimage on the
fly, which isn't going to happen.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index fe24d203b99b..42a3a3663767 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -722,13 +722,8 @@ static void crng_reseed(struct crng_state *crng)
CHACHA_KEY_SIZE);
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&crng->lock, flags);
- for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
- unsigned long rv;
- if (!arch_get_random_seed_long(&rv) &&
- !arch_get_random_long(&rv))
- rv = random_get_entropy();
- crng->state[i + 4] ^= buf.key[i] ^ rv;
- }
+ for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
+ crng->state[i + 4] ^= buf.key[i];
memzero_explicit(&buf, sizeof(buf));
WRITE_ONCE(crng->init_time, jiffies);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&crng->lock, flags);
@@ -1064,16 +1059,17 @@ static void extract_entropy(void *buf, size_t nbytes)
unsigned long flags;
u8 seed[BLAKE2S_HASH_SIZE], next_key[BLAKE2S_HASH_SIZE];
struct {
- unsigned long rdrand[32 / sizeof(long)];
+ unsigned long rdseed[32 / sizeof(long)];
size_t counter;
} block;
size_t i;
trace_extract_entropy(nbytes, input_pool.entropy_count);
- for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(block.rdrand); ++i) {
- if (!arch_get_random_long(&block.rdrand[i]))
- block.rdrand[i] = random_get_entropy();
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(block.rdseed); ++i) {
+ if (!arch_get_random_seed_long(&block.rdseed[i]) &&
+ !arch_get_random_long(&block.rdseed[i]))
+ block.rdseed[i] = random_get_entropy();
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&input_pool.lock, flags);
@@ -1081,7 +1077,7 @@ static void extract_entropy(void *buf, size_t nbytes)
/* seed = HASHPRF(last_key, entropy_input) */
blake2s_final(&input_pool.hash, seed);
- /* next_key = HASHPRF(seed, RDRAND || 0) */
+ /* next_key = HASHPRF(seed, RDSEED || 0) */
block.counter = 0;
blake2s(next_key, (u8 *)&block, seed, sizeof(next_key), sizeof(block), sizeof(seed));
blake2s_init_key(&input_pool.hash, BLAKE2S_HASH_SIZE, next_key, sizeof(next_key));
@@ -1091,7 +1087,7 @@ static void extract_entropy(void *buf, size_t nbytes)
while (nbytes) {
i = min_t(size_t, nbytes, BLAKE2S_HASH_SIZE);
- /* output = HASHPRF(seed, RDRAND || ++counter) */
+ /* output = HASHPRF(seed, RDSEED || ++counter) */
++block.counter;
blake2s(buf, (u8 *)&block, seed, i, sizeof(block), sizeof(seed));
nbytes -= i;
--
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