Commit 9c3ddde3 authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld

random: do not re-init if crng_reseed completes before primary init

If the bootloader supplies sufficient material and crng_reseed() is called
very early on, but not too early that wqs aren't available yet, then we
might transition to crng_init==2 before rand_initialize()'s call to
crng_initialize_primary() made. Then, when crng_initialize_primary() is
called, if we're trusting the CPU's RDRAND instructions, we'll
needlessly reinitialize the RNG and emit a message about it. This is
mostly harmless, as numa_crng_init() will allocate and then free what it
just allocated, and excessive calls to invalidate_batched_entropy()
aren't so harmful. But it is funky and the extra message is confusing,
so avoid the re-initialization all together by checking for crng_init <
2 in crng_initialize_primary(), just as we already do in crng_reseed().
Reviewed-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
parent f7e67b8e
......@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static void __init crng_initialize_primary(struct crng_state *crng)
{
chacha_init_consts(crng->state);
_extract_entropy(&input_pool, &crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12, 0);
if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu) {
if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu && crng_init < 2) {
invalidate_batched_entropy();
numa_crng_init();
crng_init = 2;
......
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