From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] random: Add GRND_INSECURE to return best-effort non-cryptographic bytes Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:36:24 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Cc: LKML , Linux API , Kees Cook , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Lennart Poettering , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Michael Kerrisk , Willy Tarreau , Matthew Garrett , Ext4 Developers List , linux-man , Andy Lutomirski List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- drivers/char/random.c | 11 +++++++++-- include/uapi/linux/random.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index d152612e08fc..acabb870f222 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -2122,7 +2122,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, buf, size_t, count, { int ret; - if (flags & ~(GRND_NONBLOCK|GRND_RANDOM)) + if (flags & ~(GRND_NONBLOCK|GRND_RANDOM|GRND_INSECURE)) + return -EINVAL; + + /* + * Requesting insecure and blocking randomness at the same time makes + * no sense. + */ + if ((flags & (GRND_INSECURE|GRND_RANDOM)) == (GRND_INSECURE|GRND_RANDOM)) return -EINVAL; if (count > INT_MAX) @@ -2131,7 +2138,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, buf, size_t, count, if (flags & GRND_RANDOM) return _random_read(flags & GRND_NONBLOCK, buf, count); - if (!crng_ready()) { + if (!(flags & GRND_INSECURE) && !crng_ready()) { if (flags & GRND_NONBLOCK) return -EAGAIN; ret = wait_for_random_bytes(); diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/random.h b/include/uapi/linux/random.h index 26ee91300e3e..c092d20088d3 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/random.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/random.h @@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ struct rand_pool_info { * * GRND_NONBLOCK Don't block and return EAGAIN instead * GRND_RANDOM Use the /dev/random pool instead of /dev/urandom + * GRND_INSECURE Return non-cryptographic random bytes */ #define GRND_NONBLOCK 0x0001 #define GRND_RANDOM 0x0002 +#define GRND_INSECURE 0x0004 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_RANDOM_H */ -- 2.21.0