Commit 59bcfd78 authored by Stephan Müller's avatar Stephan Müller Committed by Herbert Xu

crypto: jitter - Allow configuration of memory size

The memory size consumed by the Jitter RNG is one contributing factor in
the amount of entropy that is gathered. As the amount of entropy
directly correlates with the distance of the memory from the CPU, the
caches that are possibly present on a given system have an impact on the
collected entropy.

Thus, the kernel compile time should offer a means to configure the
amount of memory used by the Jitter RNG. Although this option could be
turned into a runtime option (e.g. a kernel command line option), it
should remain a compile time option as otherwise adminsitrators who may
not have performed an entropy assessment may select a value that is
inappropriate.

The default value selected by the configuration is identical to the
current Jitter RNG value. Thus, the patch should not lead to any change
in the Jitter RNG behavior.

To accommodate larger memory buffers, kvzalloc / kvfree is used.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
parent 04597c8d
......@@ -1296,6 +1296,49 @@ config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
See https://www.chronox.de/jent.html
choice
prompt "CPU Jitter RNG Memory Size"
default CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_2
depends on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
help
The Jitter RNG measures the execution time of memory accesses.
Multiple consecutive memory accesses are performed. If the memory
size fits into a cache (e.g. L1), only the memory access timing
to that cache is measured. The closer the cache is to the CPU
the less variations are measured and thus the less entropy is
obtained. Thus, if the memory size fits into the L1 cache, the
obtained entropy is less than if the memory size fits within
L1 + L2, which in turn is less if the memory fits into
L1 + L2 + L3. Thus, by selecting a different memory size,
the entropy rate produced by the Jitter RNG can be modified.
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_2
bool "2048 Bytes (default)"
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_128
bool "128 kBytes"
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_1024
bool "1024 kBytes"
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_8192
bool "8192 kBytes"
endchoice
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMORY_BLOCKS
int
default 64 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_2
default 512 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_128
default 1024 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_1024
default 4096 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_8192
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMORY_BLOCKSIZE
int
default 32 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_2
default 256 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_128
default 1024 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_1024
default 2048 if CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMSIZE_8192
config CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_TESTINTERFACE
bool "CPU Jitter RNG Test Interface"
depends on CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY
......
......@@ -54,6 +54,17 @@
* Helper function
***************************************************************************/
void *jent_kvzalloc(unsigned int len)
{
return kvzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
}
void jent_kvzfree(void *ptr, unsigned int len)
{
memzero_explicit(ptr, len);
kvfree(ptr);
}
void *jent_zalloc(unsigned int len)
{
return kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
......
......@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ struct rand_data {
unsigned int flags; /* Flags used to initialize */
unsigned int osr; /* Oversample rate */
#define JENT_MEMORY_BLOCKS 64
#define JENT_MEMORY_BLOCKSIZE 32
#define JENT_MEMORY_ACCESSLOOPS 128
#define JENT_MEMORY_SIZE (JENT_MEMORY_BLOCKS*JENT_MEMORY_BLOCKSIZE)
#define JENT_MEMORY_SIZE \
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMORY_BLOCKS * \
CONFIG_CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMORY_BLOCKSIZE)
unsigned char *mem; /* Memory access location with size of
* memblocks * memblocksize */
unsigned int memlocation; /* Pointer to byte in *mem */
......@@ -650,13 +650,15 @@ struct rand_data *jent_entropy_collector_alloc(unsigned int osr,
/* Allocate memory for adding variations based on memory
* access
*/
entropy_collector->mem = jent_zalloc(JENT_MEMORY_SIZE);
entropy_collector->mem = jent_kvzalloc(JENT_MEMORY_SIZE);
if (!entropy_collector->mem) {
jent_zfree(entropy_collector);
return NULL;
}
entropy_collector->memblocksize = JENT_MEMORY_BLOCKSIZE;
entropy_collector->memblocks = JENT_MEMORY_BLOCKS;
entropy_collector->memblocksize =
CONFIG_CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMORY_BLOCKSIZE;
entropy_collector->memblocks =
CONFIG_CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY_MEMORY_BLOCKS;
entropy_collector->memaccessloops = JENT_MEMORY_ACCESSLOOPS;
}
......@@ -679,7 +681,7 @@ struct rand_data *jent_entropy_collector_alloc(unsigned int osr,
void jent_entropy_collector_free(struct rand_data *entropy_collector)
{
jent_zfree(entropy_collector->mem);
jent_kvzfree(entropy_collector->mem, JENT_MEMORY_SIZE);
entropy_collector->mem = NULL;
jent_zfree(entropy_collector);
}
......
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
extern void *jent_kvzalloc(unsigned int len);
extern void jent_kvzfree(void *ptr, unsigned int len);
extern void *jent_zalloc(unsigned int len);
extern void jent_zfree(void *ptr);
extern void jent_get_nstime(__u64 *out);
......
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