The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:53:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change
The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.
This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 8e4b3c32fcf9..f72b9f1de178 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/audit.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include "tick-internal.h"
#include "ntp_internal.h"
@@ -1343,8 +1344,10 @@ int do_settimeofday64(const struct timespec64 *ts)
/* Signal hrtimers about time change */
clock_was_set(CLOCK_SET_WALL);
- if (!ret)
+ if (!ret) {
audit_tk_injoffset(ts_delta);
+ add_device_randomness(ts, sizeof(*ts));
+ }
return ret;
}
@@ -2430,6 +2433,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc)
ret = timekeeping_validate_timex(txc);
if (ret)
return ret;
+ add_device_randomness(txc, sizeof(*txc));
if (txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) {
struct timespec64 delta;
@@ -2447,6 +2451,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc)
audit_ntp_init(&ad);
ktime_get_real_ts64(&ts);
+ add_device_randomness(&ts, sizeof(ts));
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
write_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);
