Commit d1b8de78 authored by Neil Horman's avatar Neil Horman Committed by Ben Hutchings

crypto: ansi_cprng - Fix off by one error in non-block size request

commit 714b33d1 upstream.

Stephan Mueller reported to me recently a error in random number generation in
the ansi cprng. If several small requests are made that are less than the
instances block size, the remainder for loop code doesn't increment
rand_data_valid in the last iteration, meaning that the last bytes in the
rand_data buffer gets reused on the subsequent smaller-than-a-block request for
random data.

The fix is pretty easy, just re-code the for loop to make sure that
rand_data_valid gets incremented appropriately
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: default avatarStephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
CC: Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
CC: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 0b568069
......@@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ static int get_prng_bytes(char *buf, size_t nbytes, struct prng_context *ctx,
*/
if (byte_count < DEFAULT_BLK_SZ) {
empty_rbuf:
for (; ctx->rand_data_valid < DEFAULT_BLK_SZ;
ctx->rand_data_valid++) {
while (ctx->rand_data_valid < DEFAULT_BLK_SZ) {
*ptr = ctx->rand_data[ctx->rand_data_valid];
ptr++;
byte_count--;
ctx->rand_data_valid++;
if (byte_count == 0)
goto done;
}
......
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