From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Revert "netfilter: avoid get_random_bytes calls"
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:13:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389208404-3956-2-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389208404-3956-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>
This reverts commit a42b99a6e329654d376b330de057eff87686d890.
Hannes Frederic Sowa reported some problems with this patch, more specifically
that prandom_u32() may not be ready at boot time, see:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=138896532403533&w=2
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 8 ++++++++
net/netfilter/nft_hash.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/xt_recent.c | 2 +-
6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index 7d4254b..3c4b69e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/jhash.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/netfilter/nf_log.h>
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ struct nfulnl_instance {
};
#define INSTANCE_BUCKETS 16
+static unsigned int hash_init;
static int nfnl_log_net_id __read_mostly;
@@ -1063,6 +1066,11 @@ static int __init nfnetlink_log_init(void)
{
int status = -ENOMEM;
+ /* it's not really all that important to have a random value, so
+ * we can do this from the init function, even if there hasn't
+ * been that much entropy yet */
+ get_random_bytes(&hash_init, sizeof(hash_init));
+
netlink_register_notifier(&nfulnl_rtnl_notifier);
status = nfnetlink_subsys_register(&nfulnl_subsys);
if (status < 0) {
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
index 6aae699..3d3f8fc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_set *set,
unsigned int cnt, i;
if (unlikely(!nft_hash_rnd_initted)) {
- nft_hash_rnd = prandom_u32();
+ get_random_bytes(&nft_hash_rnd, 4);
nft_hash_rnd_initted = true;
}
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c b/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c
index 190854b..370adf6 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int xt_rateest_tg_checkentry(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
int ret;
if (unlikely(!rnd_inited)) {
- jhash_rnd = prandom_u32();
+ get_random_bytes(&jhash_rnd, sizeof(jhash_rnd));
rnd_inited = true;
}
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c
index 7671e82..c40b269 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int connlimit_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)
u_int32_t rand;
do {
- rand = prandom_u32();
+ get_random_bytes(&rand, sizeof(rand));
} while (!rand);
cmpxchg(&connlimit_rnd, 0, rand);
}
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
index d819f62..a3910fc 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ dsthash_alloc_init(struct xt_hashlimit_htable *ht,
/* initialize hash with random val at the time we allocate
* the first hashtable entry */
if (unlikely(!ht->rnd_initialized)) {
- ht->rnd = prandom_u32();
+ get_random_bytes(&ht->rnd, sizeof(ht->rnd));
ht->rnd_initialized = true;
}
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
index bfdc29f..1e657cf 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static int recent_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par,
size_t sz;
if (unlikely(!hash_rnd_inited)) {
- hash_rnd = prandom_u32();
+ get_random_bytes(&hash_rnd, sizeof(hash_rnd));
hash_rnd_inited = true;
}
if (info->check_set & ~XT_RECENT_VALID_FLAGS) {
--
1.7.10.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-08 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-08 19:13 [PATCH 0/3] Netfilter updates for net-next Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-01-08 19:13 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-01-08 19:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] netfilter: nf_conntrack_dccp: use %s format string for buffer Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-01-08 19:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] netfilter: nf_conntrack_dccp: fix skb_header_pointer API usages Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-01-08 20:05 ` [PATCH 0/3] Netfilter updates for net-next David Miller
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