random: check for signals every PAGE_SIZE chunk of /dev/[u]random

In 1448769c9cdb ("random: check for signal_pending() outside of
need_resched() check"), Jann pointed out that we previously were only
checking the TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and TIF_SIGPENDING flags if the process
had TIF_NEED_RESCHED set, which meant in practice, super long reads to
/dev/[u]random would delay signal handling by a long time. I tried this
using the below program, and indeed I wasn't able to interrupt a
/dev/urandom read until after several megabytes had been read. The bug
he fixed has always been there, and so code that reads from /dev/urandom
without checking the return value of read() has mostly worked for a long
time, for most sizes, not just for <= 256.

Maybe it makes sense to keep that code working. The reason it was so
small prior, ignoring the fact that it didn't work anyway, was likely
because /dev/random used to block, and that could happen for pretty
large lengths of time while entropy was gathered. But now, it's just a
chacha20 call, which is extremely fast and is just operating on pure
data, without having to wait for some external event. In that sense,
/dev/[u]random is a lot more like /dev/zero.

Taking a page out of /dev/zero's read_zero() function, it always returns
at least one chunk, and then checks for signals after each chunk. Chunk
sizes there are of length PAGE_SIZE. Let's just copy the same thing for
/dev/[u]random, and check for signals and cond_resched() for every
PAGE_SIZE amount of data. This makes the behavior more consistent with
expectations, and should mitigate the impact of Jann's fix for the
age-old signal check bug.

---- test program ----

  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <signal.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <sys/random.h>

  static unsigned char x[~0U];

  static void handle(int) { }

  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  {
    pid_t pid = getpid(), child;
    signal(SIGUSR1, handle);
    if (!(child = fork())) {
      for (;;)
        kill(pid, SIGUSR1);
    }
    pause();
    printf("interrupted after reading %zd bytes\n", getrandom(x, sizeof(x), 0));
    kill(child, SIGTERM);
    return 0;
  }

Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 394cbd814a0b..e15063d61460 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -523,7 +523,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_random_bytes);
 
 static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes)
 {
-	bool large_request = nbytes > 256;
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 	size_t len;
 	u32 chacha_state[CHACHA_STATE_WORDS];
@@ -549,15 +548,6 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes)
 	}
 
 	do {
-		if (large_request) {
-			if (signal_pending(current)) {
-				if (!ret)
-					ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
-				break;
-			}
-			cond_resched();
-		}
-
 		chacha20_block(chacha_state, output);
 		if (unlikely(chacha_state[12] == 0))
 			++chacha_state[13];
@@ -571,6 +561,13 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes)
 		nbytes -= len;
 		buf += len;
 		ret += len;
+
+		BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE % CHACHA_BLOCK_SIZE != 0);
+		if (!(ret % PAGE_SIZE) && nbytes) {
+			if (signal_pending(current))
+				break;
+			cond_resched();
+		}
 	} while (nbytes);
 
 	memzero_explicit(output, sizeof(output));