[SRU][F/aws][PATCH 1/5] random: add GRND_INSECURE to return best-effort non-cryptographic bytes
Andrea Righi
andrea.righi at canonical.com
Fri May 7 08:15:43 UTC 2021
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1927692
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d5473b56cf1fa900ca4bd2b3fc1e5b8874399919.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
(backported from commit 75551dbf112c992bc6c99a972990b3f272247e23)
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi at canonical.com>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 11 +++++++++--
include/uapi/linux/random.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 3fc1e4e7f48f..dd30ee135123 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -2184,7 +2184,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, buf, size_t, count,
{
int ret;
- if (flags & ~(GRND_NONBLOCK|GRND_RANDOM))
+ if (flags & ~(GRND_NONBLOCK|GRND_RANDOM|GRND_INSECURE))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * Requesting insecure and blocking randomness at the same time makes
+ * no sense.
+ */
+ if ((flags & (GRND_INSECURE|GRND_RANDOM)) == (GRND_INSECURE|GRND_RANDOM))
return -EINVAL;
if (count > INT_MAX)
@@ -2193,7 +2200,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, buf, size_t, count,
if (flags & GRND_RANDOM)
return _random_read(flags & GRND_NONBLOCK, buf, count);
- if (crng_init == 0) {
+ if (!(flags & GRND_INSECURE) && !crng_ready()) {
if (flags & GRND_NONBLOCK)
return -EAGAIN;
ret = wait_event_interruptible(crng_init_wait, crng_init > 0);
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/random.h b/include/uapi/linux/random.h
index 26ee91300e3e..c092d20088d3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/random.h
@@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ struct rand_pool_info {
*
* GRND_NONBLOCK Don't block and return EAGAIN instead
* GRND_RANDOM Use the /dev/random pool instead of /dev/urandom
+ * GRND_INSECURE Return non-cryptographic random bytes
*/
#define GRND_NONBLOCK 0x0001
#define GRND_RANDOM 0x0002
+#define GRND_INSECURE 0x0004
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_RANDOM_H */
--
2.30.2
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