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* repeatable boot randomness inside KVM guest
@ 2018-04-14 19:59 Alexey Dobriyan
  2018-04-14 22:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Dobriyan @ 2018-04-14 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, tytso, kvm; +Cc: security

SLAB allocators got CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM option which randomizes
allocation pattern inside a slab:


	#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
	/* Pre-initialize the random sequence cache */
	static int init_cache_random_seq(struct kmem_cache *s)
	{
		...

Then I printed actual random sequences for each kmem cache.
Turned out they were all the same for most of the caches and
they didn't vary across guest reboots.

	int cache_random_seq_create(struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned int count, gfp_t gfp)
	{
		...
		/* Get best entropy at this stage of boot */
	        prandom_seed_state(&state, get_random_long());

Then I searched internet and turned out KVM can pass randomness via
virtio-rng or something. So I linked /dev/urandom.

And it didn't help!

The only way to get randomness for SLAB is to enable RDRAND inside guest.

Is it KVM bug?

For the record I'm using qemu 2.11.1-r2 and whatever F27 ships now.

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