This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hwrng: core - Don't use a stack buffer in add_early_randomness()
to the 4.4-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:
hwrng-core-don-t-use-a-stack-buffer-in-add_early_randomness.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6d4952d9d9d4dc2bb9c0255d95a09405a1e958f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:06:27 -0700
Subject: hwrng: core - Don't use a stack buffer in add_early_randomness()
From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6d4952d9d9d4dc2bb9c0255d95a09405a1e958f7 upstream.
hw_random carefully avoids using a stack buffer except in
add_early_randomness(). This causes a crash in virtio_rng if
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y.
Reported-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: d3cc7996473a ("hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -84,14 +84,14 @@ static size_t rng_buffer_size(void)
static void add_early_randomness(struct hwrng *rng)
{
- unsigned char bytes[16];
int bytes_read;
+ size_t size = min_t(size_t, 16, rng_buffer_size());
mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
- bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, bytes, sizeof(bytes), 1);
+ bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 1);
mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex);
if (bytes_read > 0)
- add_device_randomness(bytes, bytes_read);
+ add_device_randomness(rng_buffer, bytes_read);
}
static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/hwrng-core-don-t-use-a-stack-buffer-in-add_early_randomness.patch
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