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 917470c4490ac..ed2bac6c7a8ac 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);