From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56642C433E2 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383CB206A5 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728034AbgIAIkH (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 04:40:07 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:41173 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726064AbgIAIkG (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2020 04:40:06 -0400 Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 0818dl80000977; Tue, 1 Sep 2020 10:39:47 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 10:39:47 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Yann Ylavic Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Network Developers , Sedat Dilek , George Spelvin , Amit Klein , Eric Dumazet , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Andy Lutomirski , Kees Cook , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , tytso@mit.edu, Florian Westphal , Marc Plumb Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable Message-ID: <20200901083947.GB901@1wt.eu> References: <20200901064302.849-1-w@1wt.eu> <20200901064302.849-2-w@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:33:40AM +0200, Yann Ylavic wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:45 AM Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > +/* > > + * Generate some initially weak seeding values to allow > > + * the prandom_u32() engine to be started. > > + */ > > +static int __init prandom_init_early(void) > > +{ > > + int i; > > + unsigned long v0, v1, v2, v3; > > + > > + if (!arch_get_random_long(&v0)) > > + v0 = jiffies; > > + if (!arch_get_random_long(&v1)) > > + v0 = random_get_entropy(); > > Shouldn't the above be: > v1 = random_get_entropy(); > ? Very good catch, many thanks Yann! Now fixed in my local tree. Willy