random: use simpler fast key erasure flow on per-cpu keys
Rather than the clunky NUMA full ChaCha state system we had prior, this commit is closer to the original "fast key erasure RNG" proposal from <https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170723-random.html>, by simply treating ChaCha keys on a per-cpu basis. All entropy is extracted to a base crng key of 32 bytes. This base crng has a birthdate and a generation counter. When we go to take bytes from the crng, we first check if the birthdate is too old; if it is, we reseed per usual. Then we start working on a per-cpu crng. This per-cpu crng makes sure that it has the same generation counter as the base crng. If it doesn't, it does fast key erasure with the base crng key and uses the output as its new per-cpu key, and then updates its local generation counter. Then, using this per-cpu state, we do ordinary fast key erasure. Half of this first block is used to overwrite the per-cpu crng key for the next call -- this is the fast key erasure RNG idea -- and the other half, along with the ChaCha state, is returned to the caller. If the caller desires more than this remaining half, it can generate more ChaCha blocks, unlocked, using the now detached ChaCha state that was just returned. Crypto-wise, this is more or less what we were doing before, but this simply makes it more explicit and ensures that we always have backtrack protection by not playing games with a shared block counter. The flow looks like this: ──extract()──► base_crng.key ◄──memcpy()───┐ │ │ └──chacha()──────┬─► new_base_key └─► crngs[n].key ◄──memcpy()───┐ │ │ └──chacha()───┬─► new_key └─► random_bytes │ └────► There are a few hairy details around early init. Just as was done before, prior to having gathered enough entropy, crng_fast_load() and crng_slow_load() dump bytes directly into the base crng, and when we go to take bytes from the crng, in that case, we're doing fast key erasure with the base crng rather than the fast unlocked per-cpu crngs. This is fine as that's only the state of affairs during very early boot; once the crng initializes we never use these paths again. In the process of all this, the APIs into the crng become a bit simpler: we have get_random_bytes(buf, len) and get_random_bytes_user(buf, len), which both do what you'd expect. All of the details of fast key erasure and per-cpu selection happen only in a very short critical section of crng_make_state(), which selects the right per-cpu key, does the fast key erasure, and returns a local state to the caller's stack. So, we no longer have a need for a separate backtrack function, as this happens all at once here. The API then allows us to extend backtrack protection to batched entropy without really having to do much at all. The result is a bit simpler than before and has fewer foot guns. The init time state machine also gets a lot simpler as we don't need to wait for workqueues to come online and do deferred work. And the multi-core performance should be increased significantly, by virtue of having hardly any locking on the fast path. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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