linux/drivers/char/random.c, branch v4.11

random: move random_min_urandom_seed into CONFIG_SYSCTL ifdef block

2017-02-07T01:46:49Z

Building arm allnodefconfig causes the following build warning: drivers/char/random.c:318:12: warning: 'random_min_urandom_seed' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] Fix the warning by moving 'random_min_urandom_seed' declaration inside the CONFIG_SYSCTL ifdef block, where it is actually used. While at it, remove the comment prior to the variable declaration. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

random: convert get_random_int/long into get_random_u32/u64

2017-01-27T19:25:06Z

Many times, when a user wants a random number, he wants a random number of a guaranteed size. So, thinking of get_random_int and get_random_long in terms of get_random_u32 and get_random_u64 makes it much easier to achieve this. It also makes the code simpler. On 32-bit platforms, get_random_int and get_random_long are both aliased to get_random_u32. On 64-bit platforms, int->u32 and long->u64. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long

2017-01-27T19:25:06Z

Now that our crng uses chacha20, we can rely on its speedy characteristics for replacing MD5, while simultaneously achieving a higher security guarantee. Before the idea was to use these functions if you wanted random integers that aren't stupidly insecure but aren't necessarily secure either, a vague gray zone, that hopefully was "good enough" for its users. With chacha20, we can strengthen this claim, since either we're using an rdrand-like instruction, or we're using the same crng as /dev/urandom. And it's faster than what was before. We could have chosen to replace this with a SipHash-derived function, which might be slightly faster, but at the cost of having yet another RNG construction in the kernel. By moving to chacha20, we have a single RNG to analyze and verify, and we also already get good performance improvements on all platforms. Implementation-wise, rather than use a generic buffer for both get_random_int/long and memcpy based on the size needs, we use a specific buffer for 32-bit reads and for 64-bit reads. This way, we're guaranteed to always have aligned accesses on all platforms. While slightly more verbose in C, the assembly this generates is a lot simpler than otherwise. Finally, on 32-bit platforms where longs and ints are the same size, we simply alias get_random_int to get_random_long. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa Cc: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

random: fix comment for unused random_min_urandom_seed

2017-01-19T02:54:16Z

The variable random_min_urandom_seed is not needed any more as it defined the reseeding behavior of the nonblocking pool. Though it is not needed any more, it is left in the code for user space interface compatibility. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

random: remove variable limit

2017-01-19T02:54:15Z

The variable limit was used to identify the nonblocking pool's unlimited random number generation. As the nonblocking pool is a thing of the past, remove the limit variable and any conditions around it (i.e. preserve the branches for limit == 1). Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

random: remove stale urandom_init_wait

2017-01-19T02:54:15Z

The urandom_init_wait wait queue is a left over from the pre-ChaCha20 times and can therefore be savely removed. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

random: remove stale maybe_reseed_primary_crng

2017-01-19T02:53:48Z

The function maybe_reseed_primary_crng is not used anywhere and thus can be removed. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01Z

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al: PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*' sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \ $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h) to do the replacement at the end of the merge window. Requested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15Z

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook: "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

random: remove unused randomize_range()

2016-10-11T22:06:32Z

All call sites for randomize_range have been updated to use the much simpler and more robust randomize_addr(). Remove the now unnecessary code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-8-jason@lakedaemon.net Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds