- 10 Jun, 2013 26 commits
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Denys Vlasenko authored
commit f34f9d18 upstream. In !CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET case, if elf_note_info_init fails to allocate memory for info->fields, it frees already allocated stuff and returns error to its caller, fill_note_info. Which in turn returns error to its caller, elf_core_dump. Which jumps to cleanup label and calls free_note_info, which will happily try to free all info->fields again. BOOM. This is the fix. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task CVE-2013-0871 BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129192 wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task. Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON(). TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed. Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> (backported from commit 9067ac85) Conflicts: kernel/sched/core.c Signed-off-by:
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Acked-by:
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
commit 522cff14 upstream. __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER is the preferred conditional for use in 3.9 and later kernels, per Kees. Signed-off-by:
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Ben Hutchings authored
Vaguely based on upstream commit 574c4866 'consolidate kernel-side struct sigaction declarations'. flush_signal_handlers() needs to know whether sigaction::sa_restorer is defined, not whether SA_RESTORER is defined. Define the __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER macro to indicate this. Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Emese Revfy authored
commit b9e146d8 upstream. This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls for compat processes. This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field when handling signals delivered from tkill. The place of the infoleak: int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from) { ... put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr); ... } Signed-off-by:
Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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John Johansen authored
This patch fixes a regression in ptrace, introduced by commit 9e74eb39 (backport of 9899d11f) which makes assumptions about ptrace behavior which are not true in the 2.6.32 kernel. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1145234 9899d11f makes the assumption that task_is_stopped() is not a valid state in ptrace because it is built on top of a series of patches which change how the TASK_STOPPED state is tracked (321fb561 which requires d79fdd6d and several other patches). Because Lucid does not have the set of patches that make task_is_stopped() an invalid state in ptrace_check_attach, partially revert 9e74eb39 so that ptrace_check_attach() correctly handles task_is_stopped(). However we must replace the assignment of TASK_TRACED with __TASK_TRACED to ensure TASK_WAKEKILL is cleared. Signed-off-by:
John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Acked-by:
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Acked-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL CVE-2013-0871 BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129192 putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can safely play with its stack. However a killed tracee can return from ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee does SAVE_REST again. set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the logic. As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace() call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the debugger looks at it. Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths. Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before access_process_vm(). While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state(). Reported-by:
Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Reported-by:
Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Suggested-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up() CVE-2013-0871 BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129192 Cleanup and preparation for the next change. signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the necessary mask. Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up() which adds __TASK_TRACED. This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request() even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
ptrace: ptrace_resume() shouldn't wake up !TASK_TRACED thread CVE-2013-0871 BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1129192 It is not clear why ptrace_resume() does wake_up_process(). Unless the caller is PTRACE_KILL the tracee should be TASK_TRACED so we can use wake_up_state(__TASK_TRACED). If sys_ptrace() races with SIGKILL we do not need the extra and potentionally spurious wakeup. If the caller is PTRACE_KILL, wake_up_process() is even more wrong. The tracee can sleep in any state in any place, and if we have a buggy code which doesn't handle a spurious wakeup correctly PTRACE_KILL can be used to exploit it. For example: int main(void) { int child, status; child = fork(); if (!child) { int ret; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0); ret = pause(); printf("pause: %d %m\n", ret); return 0x23; } sleep(1); assert(ptrace(PTRACE_KILL, child, 0,0) == 0); assert(child == wait(&status)); printf("wait: %x\n", status); return 0; } prints "pause: -1 Unknown error 514", -ERESTARTNOHAND leaks to the userland. In this case sys_pause() is buggy as well and should be fixed. I do not know what was the original rationality behind PTRACE_KILL. The man page is simply wrong and afaics it was always wrong. Imho it should be deprecated, or may be it should do send_sig(SIGKILL) as Denys suggests, but in any case I do not think that the current behaviour was intentional. Note: there is another problem, ptrace_resume() changes ->exit_code and this can race with SIGKILL too. Eventually we should change ptrace to not use ->exit_code. Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
commit 2ca39528 upstream. When the new signal handlers are set up, the location of sa_restorer is not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to children. This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction(). Based on what should be considered "secret" about addresses, it only matters across the exec not the fork (since the VMAs haven't changed until the exec). But since exec sets SIG_DFL and keeps sa_restorer, this is where it should be fixed. Given the few uses of sa_restorer, a "set" function was not written since this would be the only use. Instead, we use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER, as already done in other places. Example of the leak before applying this patch: $ cat /proc/$$/maps ... 7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so ... $ ./leak ... 7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so ... 1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0 2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0 3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0 4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0 ... [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use SA_RESTORER for backportability] Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
commit d7402698 upstream To avoid an explosion of request_module calls on a chain of abusive scripts, fail maximum recursion with -ELOOP instead of -ENOEXEC. As soon as maximum recursion depth is hit, the error will fail all the way back up the chain, aborting immediately. This also has the side-effect of stopping the user's shell from attempting to reexecute the top-level file as a shell script. As seen in the dash source: if (cmd != path_bshell && errno == ENOEXEC) { *argv-- = cmd; *argv = cmd = path_bshell; goto repeat; } The above logic was designed for running scripts automatically that lacked the "#!" header, not to re-try failed recursion. On a legitimate -ENOEXEC, things continue to behave as the shell expects. Additionally, when tracking recursion, the binfmt handlers should not be involved. The recursion being tracked is the depth of calls through search_binary_handler(), so that function should be exclusively responsible for tracking the depth. Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
commit b66c5984 upstream If a series of scripts are executed, each triggering module loading via unprintable bytes in the script header, kernel stack contents can leak into the command line. Normally execution of binfmt_script and binfmt_misc happens recursively. However, when modules are enabled, and unprintable bytes exist in the bprm->buf, execution will restart after attempting to load matching binfmt modules. Unfortunately, the logic in binfmt_script and binfmt_misc does not expect to get restarted. They leave bprm->interp pointing to their local stack. This means on restart bprm->interp is left pointing into unused stack memory which can then be copied into the userspace argv areas. After additional study, it seems that both recursion and restart remains the desirable way to handle exec with scripts, misc, and modules. As such, we need to protect the changes to interp. This changes the logic to require allocation for any changes to the bprm->interp. To avoid adding a new kmalloc to every exec, the default value is left as-is. Only when passing through binfmt_script or binfmt_misc does an allocation take place. For a proof of concept, see DoTest.sh from: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2012/LinuxKernelBinfmtScriptStackDataDisclosure/Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
commit 1cc684ab upstream As Tetsuo Handa pointed out, request_module() can stress the system while the oom-killed caller sleeps in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. The task T uses "almost all" memory, then it does something which triggers request_module(). Say, it can simply call sys_socket(). This in turn needs more memory and leads to OOM. oom-killer correctly chooses T and kills it, but this can't help because it sleeps in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and after that oom-killer becomes "disabled" by the TIF_MEMDIE task T. Make __request_module() killable. The only necessary change is that call_modprobe() should kmalloc argv and module_name, they can't live in the stack if we use UMH_KILLABLE. This memory is freed via call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()->cleanup. Reported-by:
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
commit 3e63a93b upstream No functional changes. Move the call_usermodehelper code from __request_module() into the new simple helper, call_modprobe(). Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
commit 5b9bd473 upstream Minor cleanup. ____call_usermodehelper() can simply return, no need to call do_exit() explicitely. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
commit d0bd587a upstream Implement UMH_KILLABLE, should be used along with UMH_WAIT_EXEC/PROC. The caller must ensure that subprocess_info->path/etc can not go away until call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). call_usermodehelper_exec(UMH_KILLABLE) does wait_for_completion_killable. If it fails, it uses xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL) to serialize with umh_complete() which does the same xhcg() to access sub_info->complete. If call_usermodehelper_exec wins, it can safely return. umh_complete() should get NULL and call call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). Otherwise we know that umh_complete() was already called, in this case call_usermodehelper_exec() falls back to wait_for_completion() which should succeed "very soon". Note: UMH_NO_WAIT == -1 but it obviously should not be used with UMH_KILLABLE. We delay the neccessary cleanup to simplify the back porting. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
commit b3449922 upstream Preparation. Add the new trivial helper, umh_complete(). Currently it simply does complete(sub_info->complete). Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
commit 20f1de65 upstream. Fix possible overflow of the buffer used for expanding environment variables when building file list. In the extremely unlikely case of an attacker having control over the environment variables visible to gen_init_cpio, control over the contents of the file gen_init_cpio parses, and gen_init_cpio was built without compiler hardening, the attacker can gain arbitrary execution control via a stack buffer overflow. $ cat usr/crash.list file foo ${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG} 0755 0 0 $ BIG=$(perl -e 'print "A" x 4096;') ./usr/gen_init_cpio usr/crash.list *** buffer overflow detected ***: ./usr/gen_init_cpio terminated This also replaces the space-indenting with tabs. Patch based on existing fix extracted from grsecurity. Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
This is upstream commit b1e0d8b7 backported to the 2.6.32.x stable branch. The correct syntax for gcc -x is "gcc -x assembler", not "gcc -xassembler". Even though the latter happens to work, the former is what is documented in the manual page and thus what gcc wrappers such as icecream do expect. This isn't a cosmetic change. The missing space prevents icecream from recognizing compilation tasks it can't handle, leading to silent kernel miscompilations. Besides me, credits go to Michael Matz and Dirk Mueller for investigating the miscompilation issue and tracking it down to this incorrect -x parameter syntax. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
commit 4b0c0f29 upstream. Prarit reported a crash on CPU offline/online. The reason is that on CPU down the NOHZ related per cpu data of the dead cpu is not cleaned up. If at cpu online an interrupt happens before the per cpu tick device is registered the irq_enter() check potentially sees stale data and dereferences a NULL pointer. Cleanup the data after the cpu is dead. Reported-by:
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305031451561.2886@ionosSigned-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Tirupathi Reddy authored
commit 42a5cf46 upstream. An inactive timer's base can refer to a offline cpu's base. In the current code, cpu_base's lock is blindly reinitialized each time a CPU is brought up. If a CPU is brought online during the period that another thread is trying to modify an inactive timer on that CPU with holding its timer base lock, then the lock will be reinitialized under its feet. This leads to following SPIN_BUG(). <0> BUG: spinlock already unlocked on CPU#3, kworker/u:3/1466 <0> lock: 0xe3ebe000, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: kworker/u:3/1466, .owner_cpu: 1 <4> [<c0013dc4>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [<c026e794>] (do_raw_spin_unlock+0x40/0xcc) <4> [<c026e794>] (do_raw_spin_unlock+0x40/0xcc) from [<c076c160>] (_raw_spin_unlock+0x8/0x30) <4> [<c076c160>] (_raw_spin_unlock+0x8/0x30) from [<c009b858>] (mod_timer+0x294/0x310) <4> [<c009b858>] (mod_timer+0x294/0x310) from [<c00a5e04>] (queue_delayed_work_on+0x104/0x120) <4> [<c00a5e04>] (queue_delayed_work_on+0x104/0x120) from [<c04eae00>] (sdhci_msm_bus_voting+0x88/0x9c) <4> [<c04eae00>] (sdhci_msm_bus_voting+0x88/0x9c) from [<c04d8780>] (sdhci_disable+0x40/0x48) <4> [<c04d8780>] (sdhci_disable+0x40/0x48) from [<c04bf300>] (mmc_release_host+0x4c/0xb0) <4> [<c04bf300>] (mmc_release_host+0x4c/0xb0) from [<c04c7aac>] (mmc_sd_detect+0x90/0xfc) <4> [<c04c7aac>] (mmc_sd_detect+0x90/0xfc) from [<c04c2504>] (mmc_rescan+0x7c/0x2c4) <4> [<c04c2504>] (mmc_rescan+0x7c/0x2c4) from [<c00a6a7c>] (process_one_work+0x27c/0x484) <4> [<c00a6a7c>] (process_one_work+0x27c/0x484) from [<c00a6e94>] (worker_thread+0x210/0x3b0) <4> [<c00a6e94>] (worker_thread+0x210/0x3b0) from [<c00aad9c>] (kthread+0x80/0x8c) <4> [<c00aad9c>] (kthread+0x80/0x8c) from [<c000ea80>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8) As an example, this particular crash occurred when CPU #3 is executing mod_timer() on an inactive timer whose base is refered to offlined CPU #2. The code locked the timer_base corresponding to CPU #2. Before it could proceed, CPU #2 came online and reinitialized the spinlock corresponding to its base. Thus now CPU #3 held a lock which was reinitialized. When CPU #3 finally ended up unlocking the old cpu_base corresponding to CPU #2, we hit the above SPIN_BUG(). CPU #0 CPU #3 CPU #2 ------ ------- ------- ..... ...... <Offline> mod_timer() lock_timer_base spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock) cpu_up(2) ..... ...... init_timers_cpu() .... ..... spin_lock_init(&base->lock) ..... spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base->lock) ...... <spin_bug> Allocation of per_cpu timer vector bases is done only once under "tvec_base_done[]" check. In the current code, spinlock_initialization of base->lock isn't under this check. When a CPU is up each time the base lock is reinitialized. Move base spinlock initialization under the check. Signed-off-by:
Tirupathi Reddy <tirupath@codeaurora.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368520142-4136-1-git-send-email-tirupath@codeaurora.orgSigned-off-by:
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Stanislaw Gruszka authored
commit e6c42c29 upstream. The trinity fuzzer triggered a task_struct reference leak via clock_nanosleep with CPU_TIMERs. do_cpu_nanosleep() calls posic_cpu_timer_create(), but misses a corresponding posix_cpu_timer_del() which leads to the task_struct reference leak. Reported-and-tested-by:
Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130215100810.GF4392@redhat.comSigned-off-by:
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Mark Rutland authored
commit a7dc19b8 upstream. Currently tick_check_broadcast_device doesn't reject clock_event_devices with CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DUMMY, and may select them in preference to real hardware if they have a higher rating value. In this situation, the dummy timer is responsible for broadcasting to itself, and the core clockevents code may attempt to call non-existent callbacks for programming the dummy, eventually leading to a panic. This patch makes tick_check_broadcast_device always reject dummy timers, preventing this problem. Signed-off-by:
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
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John Stultz authored
Commit 61b76840 ("time: Avoid making adjustments if we haven't accumulated anything") introduced a regression with nohz. Basically with kernels between 2.6.20-something to 2.6.32, we accumulate time in half second chunks, rather then every timer-tick. This was added because when NOHZ landed, if you were idle for a few seconds, you had to spin for every tick we skipped in the accumulation loop, which created some bad latencies. However, this required that we create the xtime_cache() which was still updated each tick, so that filesystem timestamps, etc continued to see time increment normally. Of course, the xtime_cache is updated at the bottom of update_wall_time(). So the early return on (offset < timekeeper.cycle_interval), added by the problematic commit causes the xtime_cache to not be updated. This can cause code using current_kernel_time() (like the mqueue code) or hrtimer_get_softirq_time(), which uses the non-updated xtime_cache, to see timers to fire with very coarse half-second granularity. Many thanks to Romain for describing the issue clearly, providing test case to reproduce it and helping with testing the solution. This change is for 2.6.32-stable ONLY! Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> Reported-by:
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> Tested-by:
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
This reverts commit fb1e7538. "Benjamin S." <sbenni@gmx.de> reports that the patch in question causes a big drop in sequential throughput for him, dropping from 200MB/sec down to only 70MB/sec. Needs to be investigated more fully, for now lets just revert the offending commit. Conflicts: include/linux/blkdev.h Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> (cherry picked from commit 79da0644) Cc: Thomas Bork <tom@eisfair.net> Signed-off-by:
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Ben Hutchings authored
This reverts commit 2af3af56, which was commit 6c4088ac upstream. This broke compilation of the driver in 2.6.32.y as the early_io{remap,unmap}() functions are not defined for ia64. The driver can *only* be built for ia64 (even in current mainline), so a fix for x86_64 is pointless. Signed-off-by:
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- 07 Oct, 2012 14 commits
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Willy Tarreau authored
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Tony Luck authored
commit d114a333 upstream. Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Signed-off-by:
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Brown authored
commit 27130f0c upstream. wm831x devices contain a unique ID value. Feed this into the newly added device_add_randomness() to add some per device seed data to the pool. Signed-off-by:
Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Brown authored
commit 9dccf55f upstream. The tamper evident features of the RTC include the "write counter" which is a pseudo-random number regenerated whenever we set the RTC. Since this value is unpredictable it should provide some useful seeding to the random number generator. Only do this on boot since the goal is to seed the pool rather than add useful entropy. Signed-off-by:
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Tony Luck authored
commit cbc96b75 upstream. Many platforms have per-machine instance data (serial numbers, asset tags, etc.) squirreled away in areas that are accessed during early system bringup. Mixing this data into the random pools has a very high value in providing better random data, so we should allow (and even encourage) architecture code to call add_device_randomness() from the setup_arch() paths. However, this limits our options for internal structure of the random driver since random_initialize() is not called until long after setup_arch(). Add a big fat comment to rand_initialize() spelling out this requirement. Suggested-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit c5857ccf upstream. With the new interrupt sampling system, we are no longer using the timer_rand_state structure in the irq descriptor, so we can stop initializing it now. [ Merged in fixes from Sedat to find some last missing references to rand_initialize_irq() ] Signed-off-by:
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> [PG: in .34 the irqdesc.h content is in irq.h instead.] Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit 7bf23575 upstream. Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit b04b3156 upstream. Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the /dev/random driver to help seed its pools. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by:
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit 330e0a01 upstream. Matt Mackall stepped down as the /dev/random driver maintainer last year, so Theodore Ts'o is taking back the /dev/random driver. Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
commit d2e7c96a upstream. Mix in any architectural randomness in extract_buf() instead of xfer_secondary_buf(). This allows us to mix in more architectural randomness, and it also makes xfer_secondary_buf() faster, moving a tiny bit of additional CPU overhead to process which is extracting the randomness. [ Commit description modified by tytso to remove an extended advertisement for the RDRAND instruction. ] Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: DJ Johnston <dj.johnston@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit c2557a30 upstream. Create a new function, get_random_bytes_arch() which will use the architecture-specific hardware random number generator if it is present. Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it is avaiable. The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware manufacturer to have not put in a back door. (For example, an increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.) It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise --- especially since Bull Mountain is documented to use AES as a whitener. Hence, the output of an evil, trojan-horse version of RDRAND is statistically indistinguishable from an RDRAND implemented to the specifications claimed by Intel. Short of using a tunnelling electronic microscope to reverse engineer an Ivy Bridge chip and disassembling and analyzing the CPU microcode, there's no way for us to tell for sure. Since users of get_random_bytes() in the Linux kernel need to be able to support hardware systems where the HW RNG is not present, most time-sensitive users of this interface have already created their own cryptographic RNG interface which uses get_random_bytes() as a seed. So it's much better to use the HW RNG to improve the existing random number generator, by mixing in any entropy returned by the HW RNG into /dev/random's entropy pool, but to always _use_ /dev/random's entropy pool. This way we get almost of the benefits of the HW RNG without any potential liabilities. The only benefits we forgo is the speed/performance enhancements --- and generic kernel code can't depend on depend on get_random_bytes() having the speed of a HW RNG anyway. For those places that really want access to the arch-specific HW RNG, if it is available, we provide get_random_bytes_arch(). Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit e6d4947b upstream. If the CPU supports a hardware random number generator, use it in xfer_secondary_pool(), where it will significantly improve things and where we can afford it. Also, remove the use of the arch-specific rng in add_timer_randomness(), since the call is significantly slower than get_cycles(), and we're much better off using it in xfer_secondary_pool() anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
commit a2080a67 upstream. Add a new interface, add_device_randomness() for adding data to the random pool that is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly even per boot). This would be things like MAC addresses or serial numbers, or the read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual entropy to the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values for devices that might otherwise be identical and have very little entropy available to them (particularly common in the embedded world). [ Modified by tytso to mix in a timestamp, since there may be some variability caused by the time needed to detect/configure the hardware in question. ] Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit 902c098a upstream. The real-time Linux folks don't like add_interrupt_randomness() taking a spinlock since it is called in the low-level interrupt routine. This also allows us to reduce the overhead in the fast path, for the random driver, which is the interrupt collection path. Signed-off-by:
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