[PATCH v2 3/3] Add the extra_latent_entropy kernel parameter

Emese Revfy
2016-05-30T23:27:13Z

When extra_latent_entropy is passed on the kernel command line,
entropy will be extracted from up to the first 4GB of RAM while the
runtime memory allocator is being initialized.

Based on work created by the PaX Team.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
arch/Kconfig | 5 +++++
mm/page_alloc.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 5349363..6c2496e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2862,6 +2862,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
the specified number of seconds. This is to be used if
your oopses keep scrolling off the screen.

+ extra_latent_entropy
+ Enable a very simple form of latent entropy extraction
+ from the first 4GB of memory as the bootmem allocator
+ passes the memory pages to the buddy allocator.
+
pcbit= [HW,ISDN]

pcd. [PARIDE]
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 7115867..cbfa8d3 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -404,6 +404,11 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
irq processing.

+ When extra_latent_entropy is passed on the kernel command line,
+ entropy will be extracted from up to the first 4GB of RAM while the
+ runtime memory allocator is being initialized. This costs even more
+ slowdown of the boot process.
+
Note that entropy extracted this way is not known to be cryptographically
secure!

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ffc4f4a..72c61bd 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/rt.h>
#include <linux/page_owner.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>

#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -1234,6 +1235,15 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
local_irq_restore(flags);
}

+bool __meminitdata extra_latent_entropy;
+
+static int __init setup_extra_latent_entropy(char *str)
+{
+ extra_latent_entropy = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("extra_latent_entropy", setup_extra_latent_entropy);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
volatile u64 latent_entropy __latent_entropy;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(latent_entropy);
@@ -1254,6 +1264,21 @@ static void __init __free_pages_boot_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
__ClearPageReserved(p);
set_page_count(p, 0);

+ if (extra_latent_entropy && !PageHighMem(page) && page_to_pfn(page) < 0x100000) {
+ u64 hash = 0;
+ size_t index, end = PAGE_SIZE * nr_pages / sizeof hash;
+ const u64 *data = lowmem_page_address(page);
+
+ for (index = 0; index < end; index++)
+ hash ^= hash + data[index];
+#ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
+ latent_entropy ^= hash;
+ add_device_randomness((const void *)&latent_entropy, sizeof(latent_entropy));
+#else
+ add_device_randomness((const void *)&hash, sizeof(hash));
+#endif
+ }
+
page_zone(page)->managed_pages += nr_pages;
set_page_refcounted(page);
__free_pages(page, order);
--
2.8.1