Commit 48446f19 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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random: ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2) 



The separate blocking pool is going away.  Start by ignoring
GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2).

This should not materially break any API.  Any code that worked
without this change should work at least as well with this change.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/705c5a091b63cc5da70c99304bb97e0109be0a26.1577088521.git.luto@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 75551dbf

drivers/char/random.c

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@@ -2207,9 +2207,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getrandom, char __user *, buf, size_t, count, 
	if (count > INT_MAX)

		count = INT_MAX;



	if (flags & GRND_RANDOM)

		return _random_read(flags & GRND_NONBLOCK, buf, count);



	if (!(flags & GRND_INSECURE) && !crng_ready()) {

		if (flags & GRND_NONBLOCK)

			return -EAGAIN;

include/uapi/linux/random.h

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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct rand_pool_info { 
 * Flags for getrandom(2)

 *

 * GRND_NONBLOCK	Don't block and return EAGAIN instead

 * GRND_RANDOM		Use the /dev/random pool instead of /dev/urandom

 * GRND_RANDOM		No effect

 * GRND_INSECURE	Return non-cryptographic random bytes

 */

#define GRND_NONBLOCK	0x0001

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