From: Matt Mackall When reseeding, we must always do a "catastrophic reseed" where we pull enough new bits to make the new state unguessable from outputs even if we knew the old state. So we must do the checks against the minimum reseed amount under the pool lock in extract_entropy. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/drivers/char/random.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/random.c~random-pt3-catastrophic-reseed-checks drivers/char/random.c --- 25/drivers/char/random.c~random-pt3-catastrophic-reseed-checks Wed Jan 19 15:29:55 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/random.c Wed Jan 19 15:29:55 2005 @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ static void MD5Transform(__u32 buf[HASH_ #define SEC_XFER_SIZE (TMP_BUF_SIZE*4) static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void * buf, - size_t nbytes, int flags); + size_t nbytes, int min, int flags); /* * This utility inline function is responsible for transfering entropy @@ -1203,6 +1203,7 @@ static inline void xfer_secondary_pool(s r->name, bytes * 8, nbytes * 8, r->entropy_count); bytes=extract_entropy(&input_pool, tmp, bytes, + random_read_wakeup_thresh / 8, EXTRACT_ENTROPY_LIMIT); add_entropy_words(r, tmp, bytes); credit_entropy_store(r, bytes*8); @@ -1220,10 +1221,13 @@ static inline void xfer_secondary_pool(s * extracting entropy from the secondary pool, and can refill from the * primary pool if needed. * + * If we have less than min bytes of entropy available, exit without + * transferring any. This helps avoid racing when reseeding. + * * Note: extract_entropy() assumes that .poolwords is a multiple of 16 words. */ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct entropy_store *r, void * buf, - size_t nbytes, int flags) + size_t nbytes, int min, int flags) { ssize_t ret, i; __u32 tmp[TMP_BUF_SIZE], data[16]; @@ -1243,16 +1247,21 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct en DEBUG_ENT("trying to extract %d bits from %s\n", nbytes * 8, r->name); - if (flags & EXTRACT_ENTROPY_LIMIT && nbytes >= r->entropy_count / 8) - nbytes = r->entropy_count / 8; - - if (r->entropy_count / 8 >= nbytes) - r->entropy_count -= nbytes*8; - else - r->entropy_count = 0; + if (r->entropy_count / 8 < min) { + nbytes = 0; + } else { + if (flags & EXTRACT_ENTROPY_LIMIT && + nbytes >= r->entropy_count / 8) + nbytes = r->entropy_count / 8; + + if (r->entropy_count / 8 >= nbytes) + r->entropy_count -= nbytes*8; + else + r->entropy_count = 0; - if (r->entropy_count < random_write_wakeup_thresh) - wake_up_interruptible(&random_write_wait); + if (r->entropy_count < random_write_wakeup_thresh) + wake_up_interruptible(&random_write_wait); + } DEBUG_ENT("debiting %d entropy credits from %s%s\n", nbytes * 8, r->name, @@ -1345,7 +1354,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct en */ void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes) { - extract_entropy(&nonblocking_pool, (char *) buf, nbytes, + extract_entropy(&nonblocking_pool, (char *) buf, nbytes, 0, EXTRACT_ENTROPY_SECONDARY); } @@ -1435,7 +1444,7 @@ random_read(struct file * file, char __u DEBUG_ENT("reading %d bits\n", n*8); - n = extract_entropy(&blocking_pool, buf, n, + n = extract_entropy(&blocking_pool, buf, n, 0, EXTRACT_ENTROPY_USER | EXTRACT_ENTROPY_LIMIT | EXTRACT_ENTROPY_SECONDARY); @@ -1497,7 +1506,7 @@ urandom_read(struct file * file, char __ flags |= EXTRACT_ENTROPY_SECONDARY; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&input_pool.lock, cpuflags); - return extract_entropy(&nonblocking_pool, buf, nbytes, flags); + return extract_entropy(&nonblocking_pool, buf, nbytes, 0, flags); } static unsigned int _