From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Jason@zx2c4.com
commit e3c1c4fd9e6d14059ed93ebfe15e1c57793b1a05 upstream.
In 1448769c9cdb ("random: check for signal_pending() outside of need_resched() check"), Jann pointed out that we previously were only checking the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and TIF_SIGPENDING flags if the process had TIF_NEED_RESCHED set, which meant in practice, super long reads to /dev/[u]random would delay signal handling by a long time. I tried this using the below program, and indeed I wasn't able to interrupt a /dev/urandom read until after several megabytes had been read. The bug he fixed has always been there, and so code that reads from /dev/urandom without checking the return value of read() has mostly worked for a long time, for most sizes, not just for <= 256.
Maybe it makes sense to keep that code working. The reason it was so small prior, ignoring the fact that it didn't work anyway, was likely because /dev/random used to block, and that could happen for pretty large lengths of time while entropy was gathered. But now, it's just a chacha20 call, which is extremely fast and is just operating on pure data, without having to wait for some external event. In that sense, /dev/[u]random is a lot more like /dev/zero.
Taking a page out of /dev/zero's read_zero() function, it always returns at least one chunk, and then checks for signals after each chunk. Chunk sizes there are of length PAGE_SIZE. Let's just copy the same thing for /dev/[u]random, and check for signals and cond_resched() for every PAGE_SIZE amount of data. This makes the behavior more consistent with expectations, and should mitigate the impact of Jann's fix for the age-old signal check bug.
---- test program ----
#include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/random.h>
static unsigned char x[~0U];
static void handle(int) { }
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { pid_t pid = getpid(), child; signal(SIGUSR1, handle); if (!(child = fork())) { for (;;) kill(pid, SIGUSR1); } pause(); printf("interrupted after reading %zd bytes\n", getrandom(x, sizeof(x), 0)); kill(child, SIGTERM); return 0; }
Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/char/random.c | 17 +++++++---------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -523,7 +523,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_bytes);
static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes) { - bool large_request = nbytes > 256; ssize_t ret = 0; size_t len; u32 chacha_state[CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE / sizeof(u32)]; @@ -549,15 +548,6 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(voi }
do { - if (large_request) { - if (signal_pending(current)) { - if (!ret) - ret = -ERESTARTSYS; - break; - } - cond_resched(); - } - chacha20_block(chacha_state, output); if (unlikely(chacha_state[12] == 0)) ++chacha_state[13]; @@ -571,6 +561,13 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(voi nbytes -= len; buf += len; ret += len; + + BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE % CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE != 0); + if (!(ret % PAGE_SIZE) && nbytes) { + if (signal_pending(current)) + break; + cond_resched(); + } } while (nbytes);
memzero_explicit(output, sizeof(output));