[PATCH 4.9 085/264] random: do not re-init if crng_reseed completes before primary init

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-23T17:17:22Z

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

commit 9c3ddde3f811aabbb83778a2a615bf141b4909ef upstream.

If the bootloader supplies sufficient material and crng_reseed() is called
very early on, but not too early that wqs aren't available yet, then we
might transition to crng_init==2 before rand_initialize()'s call to
crng_initialize_primary() made. Then, when crng_initialize_primary() is
called, if we're trusting the CPU's RDRAND instructions, we'll
needlessly reinitialize the RNG and emit a message about it. This is
mostly harmless, as numa_crng_init() will allocate and then free what it
just allocated, and excessive calls to invalidate_batched_entropy()
aren't so harmful. But it is funky and the extra message is confusing,
so avoid the re-initialization all together by checking for crng_init <
2 in crng_initialize_primary(), just as we already do in crng_reseed().

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ static void __init crng_initialize_prima
{
memcpy(&crng->state[0], "expand 32-byte k", 16);
_extract_entropy(&input_pool, &crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12, 0);
- if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu) {
+ if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu && crng_init < 2) {
invalidate_batched_entropy();
numa_crng_init();
crng_init = 2;