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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 09:46:33 +0000 (11:46 +0200)
commit4ceb0d570cf9c409738ea7343182b7c479c6290a
tree96505192118a4e16da68406b6ab67885e61ac4ce
parent13c423b6b1d3ab2e84f4ac0afe9e3b217d2a26e8
random: ensure early RDSEED goes through mixer on init

commit a02cf3d0dd77244fd5333ac48d78871de459ae6d upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/random.c