Re: Support for /dev/*random in OpenSSL 1.1.1

[Dr Paul Dale <paul.dale@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As a temporary workaround, you might try defining __NR_getrandom to the appropriate system call number, although it looks like the extra efforts to get past the other preprocessor check ing rand_unit.c could get ugly.

What about defining your our getrandom function in your application that calls the system call?  The linker should find that before glibc’s.

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On 12 Sep 2019, at 1:48 am, Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi all,

I have glibc 2.30 with Kernel 4.9.191 but unfortunately I compiled glibc with
old Kernel headers from Linux 3.16.46. It seems that as a result of this, my
getrandom() and getentropy() are stubs that always fail with ENOSYS. This
leads to:

./util/shlib_wrap.sh apps/openssl rand -hex 10
4145686272:error:2406C06E:random number generator:RAND_DRBG_instantiate:error retrieving entropy:crypto/rand/drbg_lib.c:342:
...

Fine I thought, supply --with-rand-seed=devrandom to Configure and be done
with it until you can fix your glibc. Nope - same result.

Now I see this in e_os.h:

/*
* Linux kernels 4.8 and later changes how their random device works and there
* is no reliable way to tell that /dev/urandom has been seeded -- getentropy(2)
* should be used instead.
*/
#   ifndef DEVRANDOM_SAFE_KERNEL
#    define DEVRANDOM_SAFE_KERNEL        4, 8
#   endif

So openSSL 1.1.1 will not support /dev/*random with Kernels > 4.8 ?

I can fix the kernel headers before compiling the next release of glibc but
this is some months away.

Is there anything I can do now? I don't like the idea to recompile glibc -
Version upgrades are much easier to deploy than replacing the current version.

Regards,

Michael Brunnbauer

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