Patch "random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init

to the 4.11-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-invalidate-batched-entropy-after-crng-init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b169c13de473a85b3c859bb36216a4cb5f00a54a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:45:31 -0400
Subject: random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init

From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

commit b169c13de473a85b3c859bb36216a4cb5f00a54a upstream.

It's possible that get_random_{u32,u64} is used before the crng has
initialized, in which case, its output might not be cryptographically
secure. For this problem, directly, this patch set is introducing the
*_wait variety of functions, but even with that, there's a subtle issue:
what happens to our batched entropy that was generated before
initialization. Prior to this commit, it'd stick around, supplying bad
numbers. After this commit, we force the entropy to be re-extracted
after each phase of the crng has initialized.

In order to avoid a race condition with the position counter, we
introduce a simple rwlock for this invalidation. Since it's only during
this awkward transition period, after things are all set up, we stop
using it, so that it doesn't have an impact on performance.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/char/random.c |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 /*
  * random.c -- A strong random number generator
  *
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>. All
+ * Rights Reserved.
+ *
  * Copyright Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, 2003, 2004, 2005
  *
  * Copyright Theodore Ts'o, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999.  All
@@ -762,6 +765,8 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(crng_init
 static struct crng_state **crng_node_pool __read_mostly;
 #endif
 
+static void invalidate_batched_entropy(void);
+
 static void crng_initialize(struct crng_state *crng)
 {
 	int		i;
@@ -799,6 +804,7 @@ static int crng_fast_load(const char *cp
 		cp++; crng_init_cnt++; len--;
 	}
 	if (crng_init_cnt >= CRNG_INIT_CNT_THRESH) {
+		invalidate_batched_entropy();
 		crng_init = 1;
 		wake_up_interruptible(&crng_init_wait);
 		pr_notice("random: fast init done\n");
@@ -836,6 +842,7 @@ static void crng_reseed(struct crng_stat
 	memzero_explicit(&buf, sizeof(buf));
 	crng->init_time = jiffies;
 	if (crng == &primary_crng && crng_init < 2) {
+		invalidate_batched_entropy();
 		crng_init = 2;
 		process_random_ready_list();
 		wake_up_interruptible(&crng_init_wait);
@@ -2019,6 +2026,7 @@ struct batched_entropy {
 	};
 	unsigned int position;
 };
+static rwlock_t batched_entropy_reset_lock = __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(batched_entropy_reset_lock);
 
 /*
  * Get a random word for internal kernel use only. The quality of the random
@@ -2029,6 +2037,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct batched_ent
 u64 get_random_u64(void)
 {
 	u64 ret;
+	bool use_lock = crng_init < 2;
+	unsigned long flags;
 	struct batched_entropy *batch;
 
 #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
@@ -2041,11 +2051,15 @@ u64 get_random_u64(void)
 #endif
 
 	batch = &get_cpu_var(batched_entropy_u64);
+	if (use_lock)
+		read_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);
 	if (batch->position % ARRAY_SIZE(batch->entropy_u64) == 0) {
 		extract_crng((u8 *)batch->entropy_u64);
 		batch->position = 0;
 	}
 	ret = batch->entropy_u64[batch->position++];
+	if (use_lock)
+		read_unlock_irqrestore(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);
 	put_cpu_var(batched_entropy_u64);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2055,22 +2069,45 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct batched_ent
 u32 get_random_u32(void)
 {
 	u32 ret;
+	bool use_lock = crng_init < 2;
+	unsigned long flags;
 	struct batched_entropy *batch;
 
 	if (arch_get_random_int(&ret))
 		return ret;
 
 	batch = &get_cpu_var(batched_entropy_u32);
+	if (use_lock)
+		read_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);
 	if (batch->position % ARRAY_SIZE(batch->entropy_u32) == 0) {
 		extract_crng((u8 *)batch->entropy_u32);
 		batch->position = 0;
 	}
 	ret = batch->entropy_u32[batch->position++];
+	if (use_lock)
+		read_unlock_irqrestore(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);
 	put_cpu_var(batched_entropy_u32);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_u32);
 
+/* It's important to invalidate all potential batched entropy that might
+ * be stored before the crng is initialized, which we can do lazily by
+ * simply resetting the counter to zero so that it's re-extracted on the
+ * next usage. */
+static void invalidate_batched_entropy(void)
+{
+	int cpu;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	write_lock_irqsave(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);
+	for_each_possible_cpu (cpu) {
+		per_cpu_ptr(&batched_entropy_u32, cpu)->position = 0;
+		per_cpu_ptr(&batched_entropy_u64, cpu)->position = 0;
+	}
+	write_unlock_irqrestore(&batched_entropy_reset_lock, flags);
+}
+
 /**
  * randomize_page - Generate a random, page aligned address
  * @start:	The smallest acceptable address the caller will take.


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jason@zx2c4.com are

queue-4.11/random-invalidate-batched-entropy-after-crng-init.patch