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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 3/7] random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:04:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230223130423.529128209@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230223130423.369876969@linuxfoundation.org>

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

[ Upstream commit d7bf7f3b813e3755226bcb5114ad2ac477514ebf ]

add_latent_entropy() is called every time a process forks, in
kernel_clone(). This in turn calls add_device_randomness() using the
latent entropy global state. add_device_randomness() does two things:

   2) Mixes into the input pool the latent entropy argument passed; and
   1) Mixes in a cycle counter, a sort of measurement of when the event
      took place, the high precision bits of which are presumably
      difficult to predict.

(2) is impossible without CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y. But (1) is
always possible. However, currently CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=n
disables both (1) and (2), instead of just (2).

This commit causes the CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=n case to still
do (1) by passing NULL (len 0) to add_device_randomness() when add_latent_
entropy() is called.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Fixes: 38addce8b600 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/random.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 3feafab498ad9..ed75fb2b0ca94 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
 void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq) __latent_entropy;
 void add_hwgenerator_randomness(const void *buf, size_t len, size_t entropy);
 
-#if defined(LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN) && !defined(__CHECKER__)
 static inline void add_latent_entropy(void)
 {
+#if defined(LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN) && !defined(__CHECKER__)
 	add_device_randomness((const void *)&latent_entropy, sizeof(latent_entropy));
-}
 #else
-static inline void add_latent_entropy(void) { }
+	add_device_randomness(NULL, 0);
 #endif
+}
 
 void get_random_bytes(void *buf, size_t len);
 size_t __must_check get_random_bytes_arch(void *buf, size_t len);
-- 
2.39.0




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-23 13:04 [PATCH 4.14 0/7] 4.14.307-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH 4.14 1/7] wifi: rtl8xxxu: gen2: Turn on the rate control Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH 4.14 2/7] powerpc: dts: t208x: Mark MAC1 and MAC2 as 10G Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-23 13:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2023-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH 4.14 4/7] powerpc: dts: t208x: Disable 10G on MAC1 and MAC2 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH 4.14 5/7] alarmtimer: Prevent starvation by small intervals and SIG_IGN Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH 4.14 6/7] uaccess: Add speculation barrier to copy_from_user() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-24  9:13   ` Daniel Borkmann
2023-02-24  9:56     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-23 13:04 ` [PATCH 4.14 7/7] wifi: mwifiex: Add missing compatible string for SD8787 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-02-24  4:27 ` [PATCH 4.14 0/7] 4.14.307-rc1 review Guenter Roeck
2023-02-24 13:27 ` Naresh Kamboju
2023-02-24 17:50 ` Slade Watkins

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