[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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