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timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:53:34 +0000 (23:53 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:16:20 +0000 (15:16 +0200)
[ Upstream commit b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 ]

The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.

This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/time/timekeeping.c

index e12ce2821dba514f24130c1fb700c6f9aa668f8e..d9b48f7a35e0dbcf48cb15be33f8875babf8594f 100644 (file)
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/audit.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #include "tick-internal.h"
 #include "ntp_internal.h"
@@ -1330,8 +1331,10 @@ out:
        /* signal hrtimers about time change */
        clock_was_set();
 
-       if (!ret)
+       if (!ret) {
                audit_tk_injoffset(ts_delta);
+               add_device_randomness(ts, sizeof(*ts));
+       }
 
        return ret;
 }
@@ -2410,6 +2413,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc)
        ret = timekeeping_validate_timex(txc);
        if (ret)
                return ret;
+       add_device_randomness(txc, sizeof(*txc));
 
        if (txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) {
                struct timespec64 delta;
@@ -2427,6 +2431,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc)
        audit_ntp_init(&ad);
 
        ktime_get_real_ts64(&ts);
+       add_device_randomness(&ts, sizeof(ts));
 
        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
        write_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);