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The full RNG initialization relies on some timestamps, made possible with initialization functions like time_init() and timekeeping_init(). However, these are only available rather late in initialization. Meanwhile, other things, such as memory allocator functions, make use of the RNG much earlier. So split RNG initialization into two phases. We can provide arch randomness very early on, and then later, after timekeeping and such are available, initialize the rest. This ensures that, for example, slabs are properly randomized if RDRAND is available. Without this, CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM=y loses a degree of its security, because its random seed is potentially deterministic, since it hasn't yet incorporated RDRAND. It also makes it possible to use a better seed in kfence, which currently relies on only the cycle counter. Another positive consequence is that on systems with RDRAND, running with CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM=y results in no warnings at all. One subtle side effect of this change is that on systems with no RDRAND, RDTSC is now only queried by random_init() once, committing the moment of the function call, instead of multiple times as before. This is intentional, as the multiple RDTSCs in a loop before weren't accomplishing very much, with jitter being better provided by try_to_generate_entropy(). Plus, filling blocks with RDTSC is still being done in extract_entropy(), which is necessarily called before random bytes are served anyway. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> |
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