random: ensure early RDSEED goes through mixer on init
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Tue, 8 Feb 2022 11:44:28 +0000 (12:44 +0100)
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:48:06 +0000 (16:48 +0100)
Continuing the reasoning of "random: use RDSEED instead of RDRAND in
entropy extraction" from this series, at init time we also don't want to
be xoring RDSEED directly into the crng. Instead it's safer to put it
into our entropy collector and then re-extract it, so that it goes
through a hash function with preimage resistance. As a matter of hygiene,
we also order these now so that the RDSEED byte are hashed in first,
followed by the bytes that are likely more predictable (e.g. utsname()).

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
drivers/char/random.c

index a55a58b9807ae5ecdb376408070ebdecab0ae246..21a067cf5b4c4e2db1b807e735993f6e356eb83e 100644 (file)
@@ -1208,24 +1208,18 @@ int __init rand_initialize(void)
        bool arch_init = true;
        unsigned long rv;
 
-       mix_pool_bytes(&now, sizeof(now));
        for (i = BLAKE2S_BLOCK_SIZE; i > 0; i -= sizeof(rv)) {
-               if (!arch_get_random_seed_long(&rv) &&
-                   !arch_get_random_long(&rv))
-                       rv = random_get_entropy();
-               mix_pool_bytes(&rv, sizeof(rv));
-       }
-       mix_pool_bytes(utsname(), sizeof(*(utsname())));
-
-       extract_entropy(&primary_crng.state[4], sizeof(u32) * 12);
-       for (i = 4; i < 16; i++) {
                if (!arch_get_random_seed_long_early(&rv) &&
                    !arch_get_random_long_early(&rv)) {
                        rv = random_get_entropy();
                        arch_init = false;
                }
-               primary_crng.state[i] ^= rv;
+               mix_pool_bytes(&rv, sizeof(rv));
        }
+       mix_pool_bytes(&now, sizeof(now));
+       mix_pool_bytes(utsname(), sizeof(*(utsname())));
+
+       extract_entropy(&primary_crng.state[4], sizeof(u32) * 12);
        if (arch_init && trust_cpu && crng_init < 2) {
                invalidate_batched_entropy();
                crng_init = 2;