Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751291Ab2KGF1m (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:27:42 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:35870 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750747Ab2KGF1k (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:27:40 -0500 Message-ID: <5099F133.5030305@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:27:15 +0800 From: Jeff Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML CC: Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Andreas Dilger , John Sobecki , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , Alan Cox , "arnd@arndb.de" , James Morris , "Ted Ts'o" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , jakub@redhat.com, drepper@redhat.com, "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH V3] binfmt_elf.c: Introduce a wrapper of get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3933 Lines: 122 Hello, We have observed entropy quickly depleting under normal I/O between 2.6.30 to upstream, for instance: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 3428 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2911 $cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2620 It has been occurred with fs/binfmt_elf.c: create_elf_tables()->get_random_bytes() was introduced began at 2.6.30. /* * Generate 16 random bytes for userspace PRNG seeding. */ get_random_bytes(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); This proposal patch is trying to introduce a wrapper of get_random_int() which has lower overhead than calling get_random_bytes() directly. Entropy increased with this patch applied: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2731 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2802 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2878 v3->v2: ------- Remove redundant bits mask and shift upon the random variable according to Kees's review. v2->v1: ------- Fix random copy to check up buffer length that are not 4-byte multiples according to Andreas's comments. v2 can be found at: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59418.html v1 can be found at: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg59128.html Many thanks to Andreas, Andrew as well as Kees for reviewing the patch of past. -Jeff Signed-off-by: Jie Liu Cc: John Sobecki CC: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: James Morris Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Jakub Jelinek Cc: Ulrich Drepper --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index fbd9f60..9c36e50 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs); static int load_elf_library(struct file *); static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *, unsigned long, struct elf_phdr *, int, int, unsigned long); +static void randomize_stack_user(unsigned char *buf, size_t nbytes); /* * If we don't support core dumping, then supply a NULL so we @@ -200,7 +201,7 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, /* * Generate 16 random bytes for userspace PRNG seeding. */ - get_random_bytes(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); + randomize_stack_user(k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); u_rand_bytes = (elf_addr_t __user *) STACK_ALLOC(p, sizeof(k_rand_bytes)); if (__copy_to_user(u_rand_bytes, k_rand_bytes, sizeof(k_rand_bytes))) @@ -558,6 +559,27 @@ static unsigned long randomize_stack_top(unsigned long stack_top) #endif } +/* + * A wrapper of get_random_int() to generate random bytes which has lower + * overhead than calling get_random_bytes() directly. + * create_elf_tables() call this function to generate 16 random bytes for + * userspace PRNG seeding. + */ +static void randomize_stack_user(unsigned char *buf, size_t nbytes) +{ + unsigned char *p = buf; + + while (nbytes) { + unsigned int random_variable; + size_t chunk = min(nbytes, sizeof(unsigned int)); + + random_variable = get_random_int(); + memcpy(p, &random_variable, chunk); + p += chunk; + nbytes -= chunk; + } +} + static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs) { struct file *interpreter = NULL; /* to shut gcc up */ -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/