Commit 3e88bdff authored Dec 22, 2011 by Theodore Ts'o Committed by H. Peter Anvin Jan 16, 2012

random: Use arch-specific RNG to initialize the entropy store



If there is an architecture-specific random number generator (such as
RDRAND for Intel architectures), use it to initialize /dev/random's
entropy stores.  Even in the worst case, if RDRAND is something like
AES(NSA_KEY, counter++), it won't hurt, and it will definitely help
against any other adversaries.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324589281-31931-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

parent cf833d0b

drivers/char/random.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -965,6 +965,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_bytes);
		*/
		static void init_std_data(struct entropy_store *r)
		{
		int i;
		ktime_t now;
		unsigned long flags;

		@@ -974,6 +975,11 @@ static void init_std_data(struct entropy_store *r)

		now = ktime_get_real();
		mix_pool_bytes(r, &now, sizeof(now));
		for (i = r->poolinfo->poolwords; i; i--) {
		if (!arch_get_random_long(&flags))
		break;
		mix_pool_bytes(r, &flags, sizeof(flags));
		}
		mix_pool_bytes(r, utsname(), sizeof(*(utsname())));
		}

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