- 18 May, 2022 11 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
RDRAND and RDSEED can fail sometimes, which is fine. We currently initialize the RNG with 512 bits of RDRAND/RDSEED. We only need 256 bits of those to succeed in order to initialize the RNG. Instead of the current "all or nothing" approach, actually credit these contributions the amount that is actually contributed. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Currently, start_kernel() adds latent entropy and the command line to the entropy bool *after* the RNG has been initialized, deferring when it's actually used by things like stack canaries until the next time the pool is seeded. This surely is not intended. Rather than splitting up which entropy gets added where and when between start_kernel() and random_init(), just do everything in random_init(), which should eliminate these kinds of bugs in the future. While we're at it, rename the awkwardly titled "rand_initialize()" to the more standard "random_init()" nomenclature. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
This expands to exactly the same code that it replaces, but makes things consistent by using the same macro for jiffy comparisons throughout. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
The CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM debug option controls whether the kernel warns about all unseeded randomness or just the first instance. There's some complicated rate limiting and comparison to the previous caller, such that even with CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM enabled, developers still don't see all the messages or even an accurate count of how many were missed. This is the result of basically parallel mechanisms aimed at accomplishing more or less the same thing, added at different points in random.c history, which sort of compete with the first-instance-only limiting we have now. It turns out, however, that nobody cares about the first unseeded randomness instance of in-kernel users. The same first user has been there for ages now, and nobody is doing anything about it. It isn't even clear that anybody _can_ do anything about it. Most places that can do something about it have switched over to using get_random_bytes_wait() or wait_for_random_bytes(), which is the right thing to do, but there is still much code that needs randomness sometimes during init, and as a geeneral rule, if you're not using one of the _wait functions or the readiness notifier callback, you're bound to be doing it wrong just based on that fact alone. So warning about this same first user that can't easily change is simply not an effective mechanism for anything at all. Users can't do anything about it, as the Kconfig text points out -- the problem isn't in userspace code -- and kernel developers don't or more often can't react to it. Instead, show the warning for all instances when CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM is set, so that developers can debug things need be, or if it isn't set, don't show a warning at all. At the same time, CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM now implies setting random.ratelimit_disable=1 on by default, since if you care about one you probably care about the other too. And we can clean up usage around the related urandom_warning ratelimiter as well (whose behavior isn't changing), so that it properly counts missed messages after the 10 message threshold is reached. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Initialization happens once -- by way of credit_init_bits() -- and then it never happens again. Therefore, it doesn't need to be in crng_reseed(), which is a hot path that is called multiple times. It also doesn't make sense to have there, as initialization activity is better associated with initialization routines. After the prior commit, crng_reseed() now won't be called by multiple concurrent callers, which means that we can safely move the "finialize_init" logic into crng_init_bits() unconditionally. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Since all changes of crng_init now go through credit_init_bits(), we can fix a long standing race in which two concurrent callers of credit_init_bits() have the new bit count >= some threshold, but are doing so with crng_init as a lower threshold, checked outside of a lock, resulting in crng_reseed() or similar being called twice. In order to fix this, we can use the original cmpxchg value of the bit count, and only change crng_init when the bit count transitions from below a threshold to meeting the threshold. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
crng_init represents a state machine, with three states, and various rules for transitions. For the longest time, we've been managing these with "0", "1", and "2", and expecting people to figure it out. To make the code more obvious, replace these with proper enum values representing the transition, and then redocument what each of these states mean. Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
random32.c has two random number generators in it: one that is meant to be used deterministically, with some predefined seed, and one that does the same exact thing as random.c, except does it poorly. The first one has some use cases. The second one no longer does and can be replaced with calls to random.c's proper random number generator. The relatively recent siphash-based bad random32.c code was added in response to concerns that the prior random32.c was too deterministic. Out of fears that random.c was (at the time) too slow, this code was anonymously contributed. Then out of that emerged a kind of shadow entropy gathering system, with its own tentacles throughout various net code, added willy nilly. Stop
👏 making👏 bespoke👏 random👏 number👏 generators👏 . Fortunately, recent advances in random.c mean that we can stop playing with this sketchiness, and just use get_random_u32(), which is now fast enough. In micro benchmarks using RDPMC, I'm seeing the same median cycle count between the two functions, with the mean being _slightly_ higher due to batches refilling (which we can optimize further need be). However, when doing *real* benchmarks of the net functions that actually use these random numbers, the mean cycles actually *decreased* slightly (with the median still staying the same), likely because the additional prandom code means icache misses and complexity, whereas random.c is generally already being used by something else nearby. The biggest benefit of this is that there are many users of prandom who probably should be using cryptographically secure random numbers. This makes all of those accidental cases become secure by just flipping a switch. Later on, we can do a tree-wide cleanup to remove the static inline wrapper functions that this commit adds. There are also some low-ish hanging fruits for making this even faster in the future: a get_random_u16() function for use in the networking stack will give a 2x performance boost there, using SIMD for ChaCha20 will let us compute 4 or 8 or 16 blocks of output in parallel, instead of just one, giving us large buffers for cheap, and introducing a get_random_*_bh() function that assumes irqs are already disabled will shave off a few cycles for ordinary calls. These are things we can chip away at down the road. Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> -
Jason A. Donenfeld authored
The SipHash family of permutations is currently used in three places: - siphash.c itself, used in the ordinary way it was intended. - random32.c, in a construction from an anonymous contributor. - random.c, as part of its fast_mix function. Each one of these places reinvents the wheel with the same C code, same rotation constants, and same symmetry-breaking constants. This commit tidies things up a bit by placing macros for the permutations and constants into siphash.h, where each of the three .c users can access them. It also leaves a note dissuading more users of them from emerging. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Now that fast_mix() has more than one caller, gcc no longer inlines it. That's fine. But it also doesn't handle the compound literal argument we pass it very efficiently, nor does it handle the loop as well as it could. So just expand the code to spell out this function so that it generates the same code as it did before. Performance-wise, this now behaves as it did before the last commit. The difference in actual code size on x86 is 45 bytes, which is less than a cache line. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Years ago, a separate fast pool was added for interrupts, so that the cost associated with taking the input pool spinlocks and mixing into it would be avoided in places where latency is critical. However, one oversight was that add_input_randomness() and add_disk_randomness() still sometimes are called directly from the interrupt handler, rather than being deferred to a thread. This means that some unlucky interrupts will be caught doing a blake2s_compress() call and potentially spinning on input_pool.lock, which can also be taken by unprivileged users by writing into /dev/urandom. In order to fix this, add_timer_randomness() now checks whether it is being called from a hard IRQ and if so, just mixes into the per-cpu IRQ fast pool using fast_mix(), which is much faster and can be done lock-free. A nice consequence of this, as well, is that it means hard IRQ context FPU support is likely no longer useful. The entropy estimation algorithm used by add_timer_randomness() is also somewhat different than the one used for add_interrupt_randomness(). The former looks at deltas of deltas of deltas, while the latter just waits for 64 interrupts for one bit or for one second since the last bit. In order to bridge these, and since add_interrupt_randomness() runs after an add_timer_randomness() that's called from hard IRQ, we add to the fast pool credit the related amount, and then subtract one to account for add_interrupt_randomness()'s contribution. A downside of this, however, is that the num argument is potentially attacker controlled, which puts a bit more pressure on the fast_mix() sponge to do more than it's really intended to do. As a mitigating factor, the first 96 bits of input aren't attacker controlled (a cycle counter followed by zeros), which means it's essentially two rounds of siphash rather than one, which is somewhat better. It's also not that much different from add_interrupt_randomness()'s use of the irq stack instruction pointer register. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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- 15 May, 2022 2 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
There are no code changes here; this is just a reordering of functions, so that in subsequent commits, the timer entropy functions can call into the interrupt ones. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Per the thread linked below, "premature next" is not considered to be a realistic threat model, and leads to more serious security problems. "Premature next" is the scenario in which: - Attacker compromises the current state of a fully initialized RNG via some kind of infoleak. - New bits of entropy are added directly to the key used to generate the /dev/urandom stream, without any buffering or pooling. - Attacker then, somehow having read access to /dev/urandom, samples RNG output and brute forces the individual new bits that were added. - Result: the RNG never "recovers" from the initial compromise, a so-called violation of what academics term "post-compromise security". The usual solutions to this involve some form of delaying when entropy gets mixed into the crng. With Fortuna, this involves multiple input buckets. With what the Linux RNG was trying to do prior, this involves entropy estimation. However, by delaying when entropy gets mixed in, it also means that RNG compromises are extremely dangerous during the window of time before the RNG has gathered enough entropy, during which time nonces may become predictable (or repeated), ephemeral keys may not be secret, and so forth. Moreover, it's unclear how realistic "premature next" is from an attack perspective, if these attacks even make sense in practice. Put together -- and discussed in more detail in the thread below -- these constitute grounds for just doing away with the current code that pretends to handle premature next. I say "pretends" because it wasn't doing an especially great job at it either; should we change our mind about this direction, we would probably implement Fortuna to "fix" the "problem", in which case, removing the pretend solution still makes sense. This also reduces the crng reseed period from 5 minutes down to 1 minute. The rationale from the thread might lead us toward reducing that even further in the future (or even eliminating it), but that remains a topic of a future commit. At a high level, this patch changes semantics from: Before: Seed for the first time after 256 "bits" of estimated entropy have been accumulated since the system booted. Thereafter, reseed once every five minutes, but only if 256 new "bits" have been accumulated since the last reseeding. After: Seed for the first time after 256 "bits" of estimated entropy have been accumulated since the system booted. Thereafter, reseed once every minute. Most of this patch is renaming and removing: POOL_MIN_BITS becomes POOL_INIT_BITS, credit_entropy_bits() becomes credit_init_bits(), crng_reseed() loses its "force" parameter since it's now always true, the drain_entropy() function no longer has any use so it's removed, entropy estimation is skipped if we've already init'd, the various notifiers for "low on entropy" are now only active prior to init, and finally, some documentation comments are cleaned up here and there. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YmlMGx6+uigkGiZ0@zx2c4.com/ Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Nadia Heninger <nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu> Cc: Tom Ristenpart <ristenpart@cornell.edu> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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- 13 May, 2022 23 commits
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Before, the first 64 bytes of input, regardless of how entropic it was, would be used to mutate the crng base key directly, and none of those bytes would be credited as having entropy. Then 256 bits of credited input would be accumulated, and only then would the rng transition from the earlier "fast init" phase into being actually initialized. The thinking was that by mixing and matching fast init and real init, an attacker who compromised the fast init state, considered easy to do given how little entropy might be in those first 64 bytes, would then be able to bruteforce bits from the actual initialization. By keeping these separate, bruteforcing became impossible. However, by not crediting potentially creditable bits from those first 64 bytes of input, we delay initialization, and actually make the problem worse, because it means the user is drawing worse random numbers for a longer period of time. Instead, we can take the first 128 bits as fast init, and allow them to be credited, and then hold off on the next 128 bits until they've accumulated. This is still a wide enough margin to prevent bruteforcing the rng state, while still initializing much faster. Then, rather than trying to piecemeal inject into the base crng key at various points, instead just extract from the pool when we need it, for the crng_init==0 phase. Performance may even be better for the various inputs here, since there are likely more calls to mix_pool_bytes() then there are to get_random_bytes() during this phase of system execution. Since the preinit injection code is gone, bootloader randomness can then do something significantly more straight forward, removing the weird system_wq hack in hwgenerator randomness. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
It's too hard to keep the batches synchronized, and pointless anyway, since in !crng_ready(), we're updating the base_crng key really often, where batching only hurts. So instead, if the crng isn't ready, just call into get_random_bytes(). At this stage nothing is performance critical anyhow. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Since the RNG loses freshness with system suspend/hibernation, when we resume, immediately reseed using whatever data we can, which for this particular case is the various timestamps regarding system suspend time, in addition to more generally the RDSEED/RDRAND/RDTSC values that happen whenever the crng reseeds. On systems that suspend and resume automatically all the time -- such as Android -- we skip the reseeding on suspend resumption, since that could wind up being far too busy. This is the same trade-off made in WireGuard. In addition to reseeding upon resumption always mix into the pool these various stamps on every power notification event. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Currently, we do the jitter dance if two consecutive reads to the cycle counter return different values. If they do, then we consider the cycle counter to be fast enough that one trip through the scheduler will yield one "bit" of credited entropy. If those two reads return the same value, then we assume the cycle counter is too slow to show meaningful differences. This methodology is flawed for a variety of reasons, one of which Eric posted a patch to fix in [1]. The issue that patch solves is that on a system with a slow counter, you might be [un]lucky and read the counter _just_ before it changes, so that the second cycle counter you read differs from the first, even though there's usually quite a large period of time in between the two. For example: | real time | cycle counter | | --------- | ------------- | | 3 | 5 | | 4 | 5 | | 5 | 5 | | 6 | 5 | | 7 | 5 | <--- a | 8 | 6 | <--- b | 9 | 6 | <--- c If we read the counter at (a) and compare it to (b), we might be fooled into thinking that it's a fast counter, when in reality it is not. The solution in [1] is to also compare counter (b) to counter (c), on the theory that if the counter is _actually_ slow, and (a)!=(b), then certainly (b)==(c). This helps solve this particular issue, in one sense, but in another sense, it mostly functions to disallow jitter entropy on these systems, rather than simply taking more samples in that case. Instead, this patch takes a different approach. Right now we assume that a difference in one set of consecutive samples means one "bit" of credited entropy per scheduler trip. We can extend this so that a difference in two sets of consecutive samples means one "bit" of credited entropy per /two/ scheduler trips, and three for three, and four for four. In other words, we can increase the amount of jitter "work" we require for each "bit", depending on how slow the cycle counter is. So this patch takes whole bunch of samples, sees how many of them are different, and divides to find the amount of work required per "bit", and also requires that at least some minimum of them are different in order to attempt any jitter entropy. Note that this approach is still far from perfect. It's not a real statistical estimate on how much these samples vary; it's not a real-time analysis of the relevant input data. That remains a project for another time. However, it makes the same (partly flawed) assumptions as the code that's there now, so it's probably not worse than the status quo, and it handles the issue Eric mentioned in [1]. But, again, it's probably a far cry from whatever a really robust version of this would be. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220421233152.58522-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220421192939.250680-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/ Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
All platforms are now guaranteed to provide some value for random_get_entropy(). In case some bug leads to this not being so, we print a warning, because that indicates that something is really very wrong (and likely other things are impacted too). This should never be hit, but it's a good and cheap way of finding out if something ever is problematic. Since we now have viable fallback code for random_get_entropy() on all platforms, which is, in the worst case, not worse than jiffies, we can count on getting the best possible value out of it. That means there's no longer a use for using jiffies as entropy input. It also means we no longer have a reason for doing the round-robin register flow in the IRQ handler, which was always of fairly dubious value. Instead we can greatly simplify the IRQ handler inputs and also unify the construction between 64-bits and 32-bits. We now collect the cycle counter and the return address, since those are the two things that matter. Because the return address and the irq number are likely related, to the extent we mix in the irq number, we can just xor it into the top unchanging bytes of the return address, rather than the bottom changing bytes of the cycle counter as before. Then, we can do a fixed 2 rounds of SipHash/HSipHash. Finally, we use the same construction of hashing only half of the [H]SipHash state on 32-bit and 64-bit. We're not actually discarding any entropy, since that entropy is carried through until the next time. And more importantly, it lets us do the same sponge-like construction everywhere. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub function here. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub function here. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub function here. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is suboptimal. Instead, fallback to calling random_get_entropy_fallback(), which isn't extremely high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but is certainly better than returning zero all the time. If CONFIG_X86_TSC=n, then it's possible for the kernel to run on systems without RDTSC, such as 486 and certain 586, so the fallback code is only required for that case. As well, fix up both the new function and the get_cycles() function from which it was derived to use cpu_feature_enabled() rather than boot_cpu_has(), and use !IS_ENABLED() instead of #ifndef. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
For situations in which we don't have a c0 counter register available, we've been falling back to reading the c0 "random" register, which is usually bounded by the amount of TLB entries and changes every other cycle or so. This means it wraps extremely often. We can do better by combining this fast-changing counter with a potentially slower-changing counter from random_get_entropy_fallback() in the more significant bits. This commit combines the two, taking into account that the changing bits are in a different bit position depending on the CPU model. In addition, we previously were falling back to 0 for ancient CPUs that Linux does not support anyway; remove that dead path entirely. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
The addition of random_get_entropy_fallback() provides access to whichever time source has the highest frequency, which is useful for gathering entropy on platforms without available cycle counters. It's not necessarily as good as being able to quickly access a cycle counter that the CPU has, but it's still something, even when it falls back to being jiffies-based. In the event that a given arch does not define get_cycles(), falling back to the get_cycles() default implementation that returns 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. Finally, since random_get_entropy_fallback() is used during extremely early boot when randomizing freelists in mm_init(), it can be called before timekeeping has been initialized. In that case there really is nothing we can do; jiffies hasn't even started ticking yet. So just give up and return 0. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
In order to measure the boot process, the timer should be switched on as early in boot as possible. As well, the commit defines the get_cycles macro, like the previous patches in this series, so that generic code is aware that it's implemented by the platform, as is done on other archs. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi> Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
PowerPC defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual `#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing) when defining random_get_entropy(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@ozlabs.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Alpha defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual `#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing) when defining random_get_entropy(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
PA-RISC defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual `#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing) when defining random_get_entropy(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
S390x defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual `#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing) when defining random_get_entropy(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Itanium defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual `#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing) when defining random_get_entropy(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
Currently time_init() is called after rand_initialize(), but rand_initialize() makes use of the timer on various platforms, and sometimes this timer needs to be initialized by time_init() first. In order for random_get_entropy() to not return zero during early boot when it's potentially used as an entropy source, reverse the order of these two calls. The block doing random initialization was right before time_init() before, so changing the order shouldn't have any complicated effects. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Jason A. Donenfeld authored
A semicolon was missing, and the almost-alphabetical-but-not ordering was confusing, so regroup these by category instead. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull parisc architecture fixes from Helge Deller: "Some reverts of existing patches, which were necessary because of boot issues due to wrong CPU clock handling and cache issues which led to userspace segfaults with 32bit kernels. Dave has a whole bunch of upcoming cache fixes which I then plan to push in the next merge window. Other than that just small updates and fixes, e.g. defconfig updates, spelling fixes, a clocksource fix, boot topology fixes and a fix for /proc/cpuinfo output to satisfy lscpu" * tag 'for-5.18/parisc-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: Revert "parisc: Increase parisc_cache_flush_threshold setting" parisc: Mark cr16 clock unstable on all SMP machines parisc: Fix typos in comments parisc: Change MAX_ADDRESS to become unsigned long long parisc: Merge model and model name into one line in /proc/cpuinfo parisc: Re-enable GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES for !SMP parisc: Update 32- and 64-bit defconfigs parisc: Only list existing CPUs in cpu_possible_mask Revert "parisc: Fix patch code locking and flushing" Revert "parisc: Mark sched_clock unstable only if clocks are not syncronized" Revert "parisc: Mark cr16 CPU clocksource unstable on all SMP machines"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: - Fix the DWARF CFI in our VDSO time functions, allowing gdb to backtrace through them correctly. - Fix a buffer overflow in the papr_scm driver, only triggerable by hypervisor input. - A fix in the recently added QoS handling for VAS (used for communicating with coprocessors). Thanks to Alan Modra, Haren Myneni, Kajol Jain, and Segher Boessenkool. * tag 'powerpc-5.18-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc/papr_scm: Fix buffer overflow issue with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE powerpc/vdso: Fix incorrect CFI in gettimeofday.S powerpc/pseries/vas: Use QoS credits from the userspace
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A fix and an email address update: - Prevent FPU state corruption. The condition in irq_fpu_usable() grants FPU usage when the FPU is not used in the kernel. That's just wrong as it does not take the fpregs_lock()'ed regions into account. If FPU usage happens within such a region from interrupt context, then the FPU state gets corrupted. That's a long standing bug, which got unearthed by the recent changes to the random code. - Josh wants to use his kernel.org email address" * tag 'x86-urgent-2022-05-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/fpu: Prevent FPU state corruption MAINTAINERS: Update Josh Poimboeuf's email address
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