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[PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using

From "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using
Date 2017-06-06 03:00 +0200
Message-ID <tPb0J-1BU-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Otherwise, we might be seeding the RNG using bad randomness, which is
dangerous.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 crypto/rng.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crypto/rng.c b/crypto/rng.c
index f46dac5288b9..e042437e64b4 100644
--- a/crypto/rng.c
+++ b/crypto/rng.c
@@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ int crypto_rng_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen)
 		if (!buf)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		get_random_bytes(buf, slen);
+		err = get_random_bytes_wait(buf, slen);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
 		seed = buf;
 	}
 
 	err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->seed(tfm, seed, slen);
-
+out:
 	kzfree(buf);
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.13.0

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[PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 03:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before  using Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-06-06 05:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 06:00 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 06:50 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 14:40 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 17:30 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 19:30 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 19:40 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-06-06 19:10 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 19:30 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using Stephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2017-06-06 20:00 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2017-06-06 20:10 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2017-06-07 00:20 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2017-06-07 01:20 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using Stephan Müller <smueller@chronox.de> - 2017-06-07 07:10 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that  the RNG is ready before using Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2017-06-07 16:50 +0200

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