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author | Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> | 2014-03-28 17:38:42 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-03-28 21:04:19 +0100 |
commit | 05efa8c943b1d5d90fa8c8147571837573338bb6 (patch) | |
tree | 7882312770611805d896178894810f0d9467469b /lib/random32.c | |
parent | random32: assign to network folks in MAINTAINERS (diff) | |
download | linux-05efa8c943b1d5d90fa8c8147571837573338bb6.tar.xz linux-05efa8c943b1d5d90fa8c8147571837573338bb6.zip |
random32: avoid attempt to late reseed if in the middle of seeding
Commit 4af712e8df ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when
nonblocking pool becomes initialized") has added a late reseed stage
that happens as soon as the nonblocking pool is marked as initialized.
This fails in the case that the nonblocking pool gets initialized
during __prandom_reseed()'s call to get_random_bytes(). In that case
we'd double back into __prandom_reseed() in an attempt to do a late
reseed - deadlocking on 'lock' early on in the boot process.
Instead, just avoid even waiting to do a reseed if a reseed is already
occuring.
Fixes: 4af712e8df99 ("random32: add prandom_reseed_late() and call when nonblocking pool becomes initialized")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/random32.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/random32.c b/lib/random32.c index 1e5b2df44291..614896778700 100644 --- a/lib/random32.c +++ b/lib/random32.c @@ -244,8 +244,19 @@ static void __prandom_reseed(bool late) static bool latch = false; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock); + /* Asking for random bytes might result in bytes getting + * moved into the nonblocking pool and thus marking it + * as initialized. In this case we would double back into + * this function and attempt to do a late reseed. + * Ignore the pointless attempt to reseed again if we're + * already waiting for bytes when the nonblocking pool + * got initialized. + */ + /* only allow initial seeding (late == false) once */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags); + if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&lock, flags)) + return; + if (latch && !late) goto out; latch = true; |