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random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG

Add a new ioctl which forces the the crng to be reseeded.

Theodore Ts'o committed 8 years ago

Commit d848e5f1 parent 0bb29a82 files · +15 −1Browse files

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2 files
  1. drivers/char/random.c +12 −1
  2. include/uapi/linux/random.h +3 −0
drivers/char/random.c+12−1
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ struct crng_state primary_crng = { · 428 unmodified lines
429429 static int crng_init = 0;
430430 #define crng_ready() (likely(crng_init > 1))
431431 static int crng_init_cnt = 0;
432+static unsigned long crng_global_init_time = 0;
432433 #define CRNG_INIT_CNT_THRESH (2*CHACHA20_KEY_SIZE)
433434 static void _extract_crng(struct crng_state *crng,
434435 __u32 out[CHACHA20_BLOCK_WORDS]);
@@ -933,7 +934,8 @@ static void _extract_crng(struct crng_state *crng, · 498 unmodified lines
933934 unsigned long v, flags;
934935
935936 if (crng_ready() &&
936− time_after(jiffies, crng->init_time + CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL))
937+ (time_after(crng_global_init_time, crng->init_time) ||
938+ time_after(jiffies, crng->init_time + CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL)))
937939 crng_reseed(crng, crng == &primary_crng ? &input_pool : NULL);
938940 spin_lock_irqsave(&crng->lock, flags);
939941 if (arch_get_random_long(&v))
@@ -1757,6 +1759,7 @@ static int rand_initialize(void) · 817 unmodified lines
17571759 init_std_data(&input_pool);
17581760 init_std_data(&blocking_pool);
17591761 crng_initialize(&primary_crng);
1762+ crng_global_init_time = jiffies;
17601763 return 0;
17611764 }
17621765 early_initcall(rand_initialize);
@@ -1930,6 +1933,14 @@ static long random_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) · 167 unmodified lines
19301933 input_pool.entropy_count = 0;
19311934 blocking_pool.entropy_count = 0;
19321935 return 0;
1936+ case RNDRESEEDCRNG:
1937+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
1938+ return -EPERM;
1939+ if (crng_init < 2)
1940+ return -ENODATA;
1941+ crng_reseed(&primary_crng, NULL);
1942+ crng_global_init_time = jiffies - 1;
1943+ return 0;
19331944 default:
19341945 return -EINVAL;
19351946 }
include/uapi/linux/random.h+3−0
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ · 34 unmodified lines
3535 /* Clear the entropy pool and associated counters. (Superuser only.) */
3636 #define RNDCLEARPOOL _IO( 'R', 0x06 )
3737
38+/* Reseed CRNG. (Superuser only.) */
39+#define RNDRESEEDCRNG _IO( 'R', 0x07 )
40+
3841 struct rand_pool_info {
3942 int entropy_count;
4043 int buf_size;