random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable

2020-10-29T09:12:07Z

[ Upstream commit c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 ] Non-cryptographic PRNGs may have great statistical properties, but are usually trivially predictable to someone who knows the algorithm, given a small sample of their output. An LFSR like prandom_u32() is particularly simple, even if the sample is widely scattered bits. It turns out the network stack uses prandom_u32() for some things like random port numbers which it would prefer are *not* trivially predictable. Predictability led to a practical DNS spoofing attack. Oops. This patch replaces the LFSR with a homebrew cryptographic PRNG based on the SipHash round function, which is in turn seeded with 128 bits of strong random key. (The authors of SipHash have *not* been consulted about this abuse of their algorithm.) Speed is prioritized over security; attacks are rare, while performance is always wanted. Replacing all callers of prandom_u32() is the quick fix. Whether to reinstate a weaker PRNG for uses which can tolerate it is an open question. Commit f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity") was an earlier attempt at a solution. This patch replaces it. Reported-by: Amit Klein Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: tytso@mit.edu Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: Marc Plumb Fixes: f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity") Signed-off-by: George Spelvin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/ [ willy: partial reversal of f227e3ec3b5c; moved SIPROUND definitions to prandom.h for later use; merged George's prandom_seed() proposal; inlined siprand_u32(); replaced the net_rand_state[] array with 4 members to fix a build issue; cosmetic cleanups to make checkpatch happy; fixed RANDOM32_SELFTEST build ] Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit definitions to prandom.h

2020-08-04T06:24:26Z

The addition of percpu.h to the list of includes in random.h revealed some circular dependencies on arm64 and possibly other platforms. This include was added solely for the pseudo-random definitions, which have nothing to do with the rest of the definitions in this file but are still there for legacy reasons. This patch moves the pseudo-random parts to linux/prandom.h and the percpu.h include with it, which is now guarded by _LINUX_PRANDOM_H and protected against recursive inclusion. A further cleanup step would be to remove this from entirely, and make people who use the prandom infrastructure include just the new header file. That's a bit of a churn patch, but grepping for "prandom_" and "next_pseudo_random32" "struct rnd_state" should catch most users. But it turns out that that nice cleanup step is fairly painful, because a _lot_ of code currently seems to depend on the implicit include of , which can currently come in a lot of ways, including such fairly core headfers as . So the "nice cleanup" part may or may never happen. Fixes: 1c9df907da83 ("random: fix circular include dependency on arm64 after addition of percpu.h") Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/prandom.h, branch v5.9.8

random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable

random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit definitions to prandom.h