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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2014-06-15 21:04:32 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2014-06-15 21:04:32 -0400
commite33ba5fa7afce1a9f159704121d4e4d110df8185 (patch)
treeec1d1728fea1e7d20351cb99ae992356a98e7e12 /drivers/char/random.c
parent1860e379875dfe7271c649058aeddffe5afd9d0d (diff)
downloadlinux-e33ba5fa7afce1a9f159704121d4e4d110df8185.tar.bz2
random: fix nasty entropy accounting bug
Commit 0fb7a01af5b0 "random: simplify accounting code", introduced in v3.15, has a very nasty accounting problem when the entropy pool has has fewer bytes of entropy than the number of requested reserved bytes. In that case, "have_bytes - reserved" goes negative, and since size_t is unsigned, the expression: ibytes = min_t(size_t, ibytes, have_bytes - reserved); ... does not do the right thing. This is rather bad, because it defeats the catastrophic reseeding feature in the xfer_secondary_pool() path. It also can cause the "BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP" for some kernel configurations when prandom_reseed() calls get_random_bytes() in the early init, since when the entropy count gets corrupted, credit_entropy_bits() erroneously believes that the nonblocking pool has been fully initialized (when in fact it is not), and so it calls prandom_reseed(true) recursively leading to the spinlock BUG. The logic is *not* the same it was originally, but in the cases where it matters, the behavior is the same, and the resulting code is hopefully easier to read and understand. Fixes: 0fb7a01af5b0 "random: simplify accounting code" Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v3.15
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/random.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 102c50d38902..2b6e4cd8de8e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -979,7 +979,6 @@ static void push_to_pool(struct work_struct *work)
static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min,
int reserved)
{
- int have_bytes;
int entropy_count, orig;
size_t ibytes;
@@ -988,17 +987,19 @@ static size_t account(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes, int min,
/* Can we pull enough? */
retry:
entropy_count = orig = ACCESS_ONCE(r->entropy_count);
- have_bytes = entropy_count >> (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3);
ibytes = nbytes;
/* If limited, never pull more than available */
- if (r->limit)
- ibytes = min_t(size_t, ibytes, have_bytes - reserved);
+ if (r->limit) {
+ int have_bytes = entropy_count >> (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3);
+
+ if ((have_bytes -= reserved) < 0)
+ have_bytes = 0;
+ ibytes = min_t(size_t, ibytes, have_bytes);
+ }
if (ibytes < min)
ibytes = 0;
- if (have_bytes >= ibytes + reserved)
- entropy_count -= ibytes << (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3);
- else
- entropy_count = reserved << (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3);
+ if ((entropy_count -= ibytes << (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3)) < 0)
+ entropy_count = 0;
if (cmpxchg(&r->entropy_count, orig, entropy_count) != orig)
goto retry;