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Subject: drivers/char/random.c: fix priming of last_data
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drivers-char-randomc-fix-priming-of-last_data.patch
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From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/char/random.c: fix priming of last_data
Commit ec8f02da9e ("random: prime last_data value per fips requirements")
added priming of last_data per fips requirements. Unfortuantely, it did
so in a way that can lead to multiple threads all incrementing nbytes, but
only one actually doing anything with the extra data, which leads to some
fun random corruption and panics.
The fix is to simply do everything needed to prime last_data in a single
shot, so there's no window for multiple cpus to increment nbytes -- in
fact, we won't even increment or decrement nbytes anymore, we'll just
extract the needed EXTRACT_BYTES one time per pool and then carry on with
the normal routine.
All these changes have been tested across multiple hosts and architectures
where panics were previously encoutered. The code changes are are
strictly limited to areas only touched when when booted in fips mode.
This change should also go into 3.8-stable, to make the myriads of fips
users on 3.8.x happy.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Jan Stodola <jstodola@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/char/random.c~drivers-char-randomc-fix-priming-of-last_data drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c~drivers-char-randomc-fix-priming-of-last_data
+++ a/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -957,10 +957,23 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct en
{
ssize_t ret = 0, i;
__u8 tmp[EXTRACT_SIZE];
+ unsigned long flags;
/* if last_data isn't primed, we need EXTRACT_SIZE extra bytes */
- if (fips_enabled && !r->last_data_init)
- nbytes += EXTRACT_SIZE;
+ if (fips_enabled) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
+ if (!r->last_data_init) {
+ r->last_data_init = true;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&r->lock, flags);
+ trace_extract_entropy(r->name, EXTRACT_SIZE,
+ r->entropy_count, _RET_IP_);
+ xfer_secondary_pool(r, EXTRACT_SIZE);
+ extract_buf(r, tmp);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
+ memcpy(r->last_data, tmp, EXTRACT_SIZE);
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&r->lock, flags);
+ }
trace_extract_entropy(r->name, nbytes, r->entropy_count, _RET_IP_);
xfer_secondary_pool(r, nbytes);
@@ -970,19 +983,6 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct en
extract_buf(r, tmp);
if (fips_enabled) {
- unsigned long flags;
-
-
- /* prime last_data value if need be, per fips 140-2 */
- if (!r->last_data_init) {
- spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
- memcpy(r->last_data, tmp, EXTRACT_SIZE);
- r->last_data_init = true;
- nbytes -= EXTRACT_SIZE;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&r->lock, flags);
- extract_buf(r, tmp);
- }
-
spin_lock_irqsave(&r->lock, flags);
if (!memcmp(tmp, r->last_data, EXTRACT_SIZE))
panic("Hardware RNG duplicated output!\n");
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jarod@xxxxxxxxxx are
drivers-char-randomc-fix-priming-of-last_data.patch
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