[PATCH v1 4/7] random: ensure early RDSEED goes through mixer on init

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Tue Feb 08 2022 - 10:54:20 EST


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.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index db0e0e77613e..2bd19dce822d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1218,24 +1218,18 @@ int __init rand_initialize(void)
bool arch_init = true;
unsigned long rv;

+ mix_pool_bytes(utsname(), sizeof(*(utsname())));
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));
}
+
+ extract_entropy(&primary_crng.state[4], sizeof(u32) * 12);
if (arch_init && trust_cpu && crng_init < 2) {
invalidate_batched_entropy();
crng_init = 2;
--
2.35.0