Please ignore this patch since I forgot revising the comments of this new wrapper according to Andrew's, will re-send it a little while, sorry for the noise! -Jeff On 11/07/2012 01:27 PM, Jeff Liu wrote: > Hello, > > We have observed entropy quickly depleting under normal I/O between 2.6.30 to upstream, for instance: > > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > 3428 > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > 2911 > $cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > 2620 > > It has been occurred with fs/binfmt_elf.c: create_elf_tables()->get_random_bytes() > was introduced began at 2.6.30. > /* > * Generate 16 random bytes for userspace PRNG seeding. > */ > get_random_bytes(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); > > This proposal patch is trying to introduce a wrapper of get_random_int() which has lower overhead > than calling get_random_bytes() directly. > > Entropy increased with this patch applied: > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > 2731 > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > 2802 > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > 2878 > > > v3->v2: > ------- > Remove redundant bits mask and shift upon the random variable according to Kees's review. > > v2->v1: > ------- > Fix random copy to check up buffer length that are not 4-byte multiples according to Andreas's comments. > > v2 can be found at: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59418.html > v1 can be found at: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59128.html > > Many thanks to Andreas, Andrew as well as Kees for reviewing the patch of past. > > -Jeff > > > Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: John Sobecki <john.sobecki@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andreas Dilger <aedilger@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnn@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > fs/binfmt_elf.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c > index fbd9f60..9c36e50 100644 > --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c > +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c > @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs); > static int load_elf_library(struct file *); > static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *, unsigned long, struct elf_phdr *, > int, int, unsigned long); > +static void randomize_stack_user(unsigned char *buf, size_t nbytes); > > /* > * If we don't support core dumping, then supply a NULL so we > @@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, > /* > * Generate 16 random bytes for userspace PRNG seeding. > */ > - get_random_bytes(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); > + randomize_stack_user(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); > u_rand_bytes = (elf_addr_t __user *) > STACK_ALLOC(p, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); > if (__copy_to_user(u_rand_bytes, k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes))) > @@ -558,6 +559,27 @@ static unsigned long randomize_stack_top(unsigned long stack_top) > #endif > } > > +/* > + * A wrapper of get_random_int() to generate random bytes which has lower > + * overhead than calling get_random_bytes() directly. > + * create_elf_tables() call this function to generate 16 random bytes for > + * userspace PRNG seeding. > + */ > +static void randomize_stack_user(unsigned char *buf, size_t nbytes) > +{ > + unsigned char *p = buf; > + > + while (nbytes) { > + unsigned int random_variable; > + size_t chunk = min(nbytes, sizeof(unsigned int)); > + > + random_variable = get_random_int(); > + memcpy(p, &random_variable, chunk); > + p += chunk; > + nbytes -= chunk; > + } > +} > + > static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs) > { > struct file *interpreter = NULL; /* to shut gcc up */ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
