Commit 4ada97ab authored by Hannes Frederic Sowa's avatar Hannes Frederic Sowa Committed by David S. Miller

random32: mix in entropy from core to late initcall

Currently, we have a 3-stage seeding process in prandom():

Phase 1 is from the early actual initialization of prandom()
subsystem which happens during core_initcall() and remains
most likely until the beginning of late_initcall() phase.
Here, the system might not have enough entropy available
for seeding with strong randomness from the random driver.
That means, we currently have a 32bit weak LCG() seeding
the PRNG status register 1 and mixing that successively
into the other 3 registers just to get it up and running.

Phase 2 starts with late_initcall() phase resp. when the
random driver has initialized its non-blocking pool with
enough entropy. At that time, we throw away *all* inner
state from its 4 registers and do a full reseed with strong
randomness.

Phase 3 starts right after that and does a periodic reseed
with random slack of status register 1 by a strong random
source again.

A problem in phase 1 is that during bootup data structures
can be initialized, e.g. on module load time, and thus access
a weakly seeded prandom and are never changed for the rest
of their live-time, thus carrying along the results from a
week seed. Lets make sure that current but also future users
access a possibly better early seeded prandom.

This patch therefore improves phase 1 by trying to make it
more 'unpredictable' through mixing in seed from a possible
hardware source. Now, the mix-in xors inner state with the
outcome of either of the two functions arch_get_random_{,seed}_int(),
preferably arch_get_random_seed_int() as it likely represents
a non-deterministic random bit generator in hw rather than
a cryptographically secure PRNG in hw. However, not all might
have the first one, so we use the PRNG as a fallback if
available. As we xor the seed into the current state, the
worst case would be that a hardware source could be unverifiable
compromised or backdoored. In that case nevertheless it
would be as good as our original early seeding function
prandom_seed_very_weak() since we mix through xor which is
entropy preserving.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f139c74a
......@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOM32_SELFTEST
static void __init prandom_state_selftest(void);
#else
static inline void prandom_state_selftest(void)
{
}
#endif
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state);
......@@ -53,8 +57,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rnd_state, net_rand_state);
*/
u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state)
{
#define TAUSWORTHE(s,a,b,c,d) ((s&c)<<d) ^ (((s <<a) ^ s)>>b)
#define TAUSWORTHE(s, a, b, c, d) ((s & c) << d) ^ (((s << a) ^ s) >> b)
state->s1 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s1, 6U, 13U, 4294967294U, 18U);
state->s2 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s2, 2U, 27U, 4294967288U, 2U);
state->s3 = TAUSWORTHE(state->s3, 13U, 21U, 4294967280U, 7U);
......@@ -147,21 +150,25 @@ static void prandom_warmup(struct rnd_state *state)
prandom_u32_state(state);
}
static void prandom_seed_very_weak(struct rnd_state *state, u32 seed)
static u32 __extract_hwseed(void)
{
u32 val = 0;
(void)(arch_get_random_seed_int(&val) ||
arch_get_random_int(&val));
return val;
}
static void prandom_seed_early(struct rnd_state *state, u32 seed,
bool mix_with_hwseed)
{
/* Note: This sort of seeding is ONLY used in test cases and
* during boot at the time from core_initcall until late_initcall
* as we don't have a stronger entropy source available yet.
* After late_initcall, we reseed entire state, we have to (!),
* otherwise an attacker just needs to search 32 bit space to
* probe for our internal 128 bit state if he knows a couple
* of prandom32 outputs!
*/
#define LCG(x) ((x) * 69069U) /* super-duper LCG */
state->s1 = __seed(LCG(seed), 2U);
state->s2 = __seed(LCG(state->s1), 8U);
state->s3 = __seed(LCG(state->s2), 16U);
state->s4 = __seed(LCG(state->s3), 128U);
#define HWSEED() (mix_with_hwseed ? __extract_hwseed() : 0)
state->s1 = __seed(HWSEED() ^ LCG(seed), 2U);
state->s2 = __seed(HWSEED() ^ LCG(state->s1), 8U);
state->s3 = __seed(HWSEED() ^ LCG(state->s2), 16U);
state->s4 = __seed(HWSEED() ^ LCG(state->s3), 128U);
}
/**
......@@ -194,14 +201,13 @@ static int __init prandom_init(void)
{
int i;
#ifdef CONFIG_RANDOM32_SELFTEST
prandom_state_selftest();
#endif
for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
struct rnd_state *state = &per_cpu(net_rand_state,i);
u32 weak_seed = (i + jiffies) ^ random_get_entropy();
prandom_seed_very_weak(state, (i + jiffies) ^ random_get_entropy());
prandom_seed_early(state, weak_seed, true);
prandom_warmup(state);
}
......@@ -210,6 +216,7 @@ static int __init prandom_init(void)
core_initcall(prandom_init);
static void __prandom_timer(unsigned long dontcare);
static DEFINE_TIMER(seed_timer, __prandom_timer, 0, 0);
static void __prandom_timer(unsigned long dontcare)
......@@ -419,7 +426,7 @@ static void __init prandom_state_selftest(void)
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(test1); i++) {
struct rnd_state state;
prandom_seed_very_weak(&state, test1[i].seed);
prandom_seed_early(&state, test1[i].seed, false);
prandom_warmup(&state);
if (test1[i].result != prandom_u32_state(&state))
......@@ -434,7 +441,7 @@ static void __init prandom_state_selftest(void)
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(test2); i++) {
struct rnd_state state;
prandom_seed_very_weak(&state, test2[i].seed);
prandom_seed_early(&state, test2[i].seed, false);
prandom_warmup(&state);
for (j = 0; j < test2[i].iteration - 1; j++)
......
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