mm/slab_common: Replace invocation of weak PRNG
authorDavid Keisar Schmidt <david.keisarschm@mail.huji.ac.il>
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:22:55 +0000 (20:22 +0300)
committerVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Mon, 22 May 2023 13:22:08 +0000 (15:22 +0200)
commitffe4dfe0baddaf61318bd275cacd64d4dbbbe724
tree6120b7880c4daaee429e38bb2a125cdde5b4fabf
parentf7e466e951a15bc7cec496f22f6276b854d3c310
mm/slab_common: Replace invocation of weak PRNG

The Slab allocator randomization inside slab_common.c
uses the prandom_u32 PRNG. That was added to prevent attackers to obtain
information on the heap state.

However, this PRNG turned out to be weak, as noted in commit c51f8f88d705
To fix it, we have changed the invocation of prandom_u32_state to get_random_u32
to ensure the PRNG is strong.

Since a modulo operation is applied right after that,
in the Fisher-Yates shuffle, we used get_random_u32_below, to achieve uniformity.

Signed-off-by: David Keisar Schmidt <david.keisarschm@mail.huji.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
mm/slab_common.c