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random: use hash function for crng_slow_load()
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commit 66e4c2b upstream.

Since we have a hash function that's really fast, and the goal of
crng_slow_load() is reportedly to "touch all of the crng's state", we
can just hash the old state together with the new state and call it a
day. This way we dont need to reason about another LFSR or worry about
various attacks there. This code is only ever used at early boot and
then never again.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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zx2c4 authored and gregkh committed May 30, 2022
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42 changes: 15 additions & 27 deletions drivers/char/random.c
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Expand Up @@ -477,42 +477,30 @@ static size_t crng_fast_load(const u8 *cp, size_t len)
* all), and (2) it doesn't have the performance constraints of
* crng_fast_load().
*
* So we do something more comprehensive which is guaranteed to touch
* all of the primary_crng's state, and which uses a LFSR with a
* period of 255 as part of the mixing algorithm. Finally, we do
* *not* advance crng_init_cnt since buffer we may get may be something
* like a fixed DMI table (for example), which might very well be
* unique to the machine, but is otherwise unvarying.
* So, we simply hash the contents in with the current key. Finally,
* we do *not* advance crng_init_cnt since buffer we may get may be
* something like a fixed DMI table (for example), which might very
* well be unique to the machine, but is otherwise unvarying.
*/
static int crng_slow_load(const u8 *cp, size_t len)
static void crng_slow_load(const u8 *cp, size_t len)
{
unsigned long flags;
static u8 lfsr = 1;
u8 tmp;
unsigned int i, max = sizeof(base_crng.key);
const u8 *src_buf = cp;
u8 *dest_buf = base_crng.key;
struct blake2s_state hash;

blake2s_init(&hash, sizeof(base_crng.key));

if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&base_crng.lock, flags))
return 0;
return;
if (crng_init != 0) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base_crng.lock, flags);
return 0;
}
if (len > max)
max = len;

for (i = 0; i < max; i++) {
tmp = lfsr;
lfsr >>= 1;
if (tmp & 1)
lfsr ^= 0xE1;
tmp = dest_buf[i % sizeof(base_crng.key)];
dest_buf[i % sizeof(base_crng.key)] ^= src_buf[i % len] ^ lfsr;
lfsr += (tmp << 3) | (tmp >> 5);
return;
}

blake2s_update(&hash, base_crng.key, sizeof(base_crng.key));
blake2s_update(&hash, cp, len);
blake2s_final(&hash, base_crng.key);

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&base_crng.lock, flags);
return 1;
}

static void crng_reseed(void)
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