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authorWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2020-07-10 15:23:19 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-08-07 09:33:10 +0200
commit378a4d2215334fa4d3c5888a008f8896066bc231 (patch)
tree073fec4f44894b04d8973ea47957989299f07c58 /kernel
parent7ea928a13ce52bdd1a8b057df509263db3ff167c (diff)
random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity
commit f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 upstream. This modifies the first 32 bits out of the 128 bits of a random CPU's net_rand_state on interrupt or CPU activity to complicate remote observations that could lead to guessing the network RNG's internal state. Note that depending on some network devices' interrupt rate moderation or binding, this re-seeding might happen on every packet or even almost never. In addition, with NOHZ some CPUs might not even get timer interrupts, leaving their local state rarely updated, while they are running networked processes making use of the random state. For this reason, we also perform this update in update_process_times() in order to at least update the state when there is user or system activity, since it's the only case we care about. Reported-by: Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timer.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 03c9fc395ab1..721d5af8cfc7 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -1743,6 +1744,13 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
scheduler_tick();
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS))
run_posix_cpu_timers();
+
+ /* The current CPU might make use of net randoms without receiving IRQs
+ * to renew them often enough. Let's update the net_rand_state from a
+ * non-constant value that's not affine to the number of calls to make
+ * sure it's updated when there's some activity (we don't care in idle).
+ */
+ this_cpu_add(net_rand_state.s1, rol32(jiffies, 24) + user_tick);
}
/**