This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled random: use static branch for crng_ready() to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: random-use-static-branch-for-crng_ready.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu May 26 04:17:01 PM CEST 2022 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 15:30:45 +0200 Subject: random: use static branch for crng_ready() From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> commit f5bda35fba615ace70a656d4700423fa6c9bebee upstream. Since crng_ready() is only false briefly during initialization and then forever after becomes true, we don't need to evaluate it after, making it a prime candidate for a static branch. One complication, however, is that it changes state in a particular call to credit_init_bits(), which might be made from atomic context, which means we must kick off a workqueue to change the static key. Further complicating things, credit_init_bits() may be called sufficiently early on in system initialization such that system_wq is NULL. Fortunately, there exists the nice function execute_in_process_context(), which will immediately execute the function if !in_interrupt(), and otherwise defer it to a workqueue. During early init, before workqueues are available, in_interrupt() is always false, because interrupts haven't even been enabled yet, which means the function in that case executes immediately. Later on, after workqueues are available, in_interrupt() might be true, but in that case, the work is queued in system_wq and all goes well. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/random.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ static enum { CRNG_EMPTY = 0, /* Little to no entropy collected */ CRNG_EARLY = 1, /* At least POOL_EARLY_BITS collected */ CRNG_READY = 2 /* Fully initialized with POOL_READY_BITS collected */ -} crng_init = CRNG_EMPTY; -#define crng_ready() (likely(crng_init >= CRNG_READY)) +} crng_init __read_mostly = CRNG_EMPTY; +static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(crng_is_ready); +#define crng_ready() (static_branch_likely(&crng_is_ready) || crng_init >= CRNG_READY) /* Various types of waiters for crng_init->CRNG_READY transition. */ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(crng_init_wait); static struct fasync_struct *fasync; @@ -108,6 +109,11 @@ bool rng_is_initialized(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(rng_is_initialized); +static void crng_set_ready(struct work_struct *work) +{ + static_branch_enable(&crng_is_ready); +} + /* Used by wait_for_random_bytes(), and considered an entropy collector, below. */ static void try_to_generate_entropy(void); @@ -267,7 +273,7 @@ static void crng_reseed(void) ++next_gen; WRITE_ONCE(base_crng.generation, next_gen); WRITE_ONCE(base_crng.birth, jiffies); - if (!crng_ready()) + if (!static_branch_likely(&crng_is_ready)) crng_init = CRNG_READY; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base_crng.lock, flags); memzero_explicit(key, sizeof(key)); @@ -785,6 +791,7 @@ static void extract_entropy(void *buf, s static void credit_init_bits(size_t nbits) { + static struct execute_work set_ready; unsigned int new, orig, add; unsigned long flags; @@ -800,6 +807,7 @@ static void credit_init_bits(size_t nbit if (orig < POOL_READY_BITS && new >= POOL_READY_BITS) { crng_reseed(); /* Sets crng_init to CRNG_READY under base_crng.lock. */ + execute_in_process_context(crng_set_ready, &set_ready); process_random_ready_list(); wake_up_interruptible(&crng_init_wait); kill_fasync(&fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN); @@ -1348,7 +1356,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user * if (count > INT_MAX) count = INT_MAX; - if (!(flags & GRND_INSECURE) && !crng_ready()) { + if (!crng_ready() && !(flags & GRND_INSECURE)) { int ret; if (flags & GRND_NONBLOCK) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jason@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.18/random-remove-ratelimiting-for-in-kernel-unseeded-randomness.patch queue-5.18/random-fix-sysctl-documentation-nits.patch queue-5.18/random-help-compiler-out-with-fast_mix-by-using-simpler-arguments.patch queue-5.18/siphash-use-one-source-of-truth-for-siphash-permutations.patch queue-5.18/um-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/random-order-timer-entropy-functions-below-interrupt-functions.patch queue-5.18/random-unify-batched-entropy-implementations.patch queue-5.18/random-make-consistent-use-of-buf-and-len.patch queue-5.18/random-move-randomize_page-into-mm-where-it-belongs.patch queue-5.18/random-use-first-128-bits-of-input-as-fast-init.patch queue-5.18/random-use-proper-return-types-on-get_random_-int-long-_wait.patch queue-5.18/s390-define-get_cycles-macro-for-arch-override.patch queue-5.18/timekeeping-add-raw-clock-fallback-for-random_get_entropy.patch queue-5.18/random-use-static-branch-for-crng_ready.patch queue-5.18/arm-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/mips-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-just-c0-random.patch queue-5.18/random-avoid-initializing-twice-in-credit-race.patch queue-5.18/random-move-initialization-functions-out-of-hot-pages.patch queue-5.18/random-do-not-pretend-to-handle-premature-next-security-model.patch queue-5.18/random-do-not-use-batches-when-crng_ready.patch queue-5.18/m68k-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/random-move-initialization-out-of-reseeding-hot-path.patch queue-5.18/x86-tsc-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/random-credit-architectural-init-the-exact-amount.patch queue-5.18/random-check-for-signals-after-page-of-pool-writes.patch queue-5.18/random-remove-extern-from-functions-in-header.patch queue-5.18/random-do-not-use-input-pool-from-hard-irqs.patch queue-5.18/random-wire-up-fops-splice_-read-write-_iter.patch queue-5.18/random-insist-on-random_get_entropy-existing-in-order-to-simplify.patch queue-5.18/powerpc-define-get_cycles-macro-for-arch-override.patch queue-5.18/parisc-define-get_cycles-macro-for-arch-override.patch queue-5.18/sparc-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/nios2-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/init-call-time_init-before-rand_initialize.patch queue-5.18/riscv-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/ia64-define-get_cycles-macro-for-arch-override.patch queue-5.18/random-handle-latent-entropy-and-command-line-from-random_init.patch queue-5.18/random-use-proper-jiffies-comparison-macro.patch queue-5.18/alpha-define-get_cycles-macro-for-arch-override.patch queue-5.18/random-convert-to-using-fops-read_iter.patch queue-5.18/xtensa-use-fallback-for-random_get_entropy-instead-of-zero.patch queue-5.18/random-use-symbolic-constants-for-crng_init-states.patch queue-5.18/random-convert-to-using-fops-write_iter.patch