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Linus Torvalds 91f28da8c9 random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 
This is the cleanup of the latest series of prandom_u32 experimentations
 consisting in using SipHash instead of Tausworthe to produce the randoms
 used by the network stack. The changes to the files were kept minimal,
 and the controversial commit that used to take noise from the fast_pool
 (f227e3ec3b) was reverted. Instead, a dedicated "net_rand_noise" per_cpu
 variable is fed from various sources of activities (networking, scheduling)
 to perturb the SipHash state using fast, non-trivially predictable data,
 instead of keeping it fully deterministic. The goal is essentially to make
 any occasional memory leakage or brute-force attempt useless.
 
 The resulting code was verified to be very slightly faster on x86_64 than
 what is was with the controversial commit above, though this remains barely
 above measurement noise. It was also tested on i386 and arm, and build-
 tested only on arm64.
 
 The whole discussion around this is archived here:
   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/
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Merge tag '20201024-v4-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/prandom

Pull random32 updates from Willy Tarreau:
 "Make prandom_u32() less predictable.

  This is the cleanup of the latest series of prandom_u32
  experimentations consisting in using SipHash instead of Tausworthe to
  produce the randoms used by the network stack.

  The changes to the files were kept minimal, and the controversial
  commit that used to take noise from the fast_pool (f227e3ec3b) was
  reverted. Instead, a dedicated "net_rand_noise" per_cpu variable is
  fed from various sources of activities (networking, scheduling) to
  perturb the SipHash state using fast, non-trivially predictable data,
  instead of keeping it fully deterministic. The goal is essentially to
  make any occasional memory leakage or brute-force attempt useless.

  The resulting code was verified to be very slightly faster on x86_64
  than what is was with the controversial commit above, though this
  remains barely above measurement noise. It was also tested on i386 and
  arm, and build- tested only on arm64"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/

* tag '20201024-v4-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/prandom:
  random32: add a selftest for the prandom32 code
  random32: add noise from network and scheduling activity
  random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable
2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
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acpi pci-v5.10-changes 2020-10-22 12:41:00 -07:00
asm-generic RISC-V Patches for the 5.10 Merge Window, Part 2 2020-10-24 10:57:57 -07:00
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crypto X.509: Fix modular build of public_key_sm2 2020-10-08 16:39:14 +11:00
drm sound updates for 5.10 2020-10-15 11:07:44 -07:00
dt-bindings ARM: Devicetree updates 2020-10-24 10:44:18 -07:00
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kunit linux-kselftest-kunit-5.10-rc1 2020-10-18 14:45:59 -07:00
kvm ARM: 2020-10-23 11:17:56 -07:00
linux random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
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media ARM: SoC platform updates 2020-10-24 10:33:08 -07:00
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net Fixes for 5.10-rc1 from the networking tree: 2020-10-23 12:05:49 -07:00
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ras mm,hwpoison: introduce MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
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scsi SCSI misc on 20201023 2020-10-23 16:19:02 -07:00
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sound ASoC: Updates for v5.10 2020-10-12 16:08:57 +02:00
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trace ARM: 2020-10-23 11:17:56 -07:00
uapi Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-10-24 12:26:05 -07:00
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xen xen: branch for v5.10-rc1b 2020-10-20 09:24:01 -07:00