random: add helpers for random numbers with given floor or range

Now that we have get_random_u32_below(), it's nearly trivial to make
inline helpers to compute get_random_u32_above() and
get_random_u32_inclusive(), which will help clean up open coded loops
and manual computations throughout the tree.

One snag is that in order to make get_random_u32_inclusive() operate on
closed intervals, we have to do some (unlikely) special case handling if
get_random_u32_inclusive(0, U32_MAX) is called. The least expensive way
of doing this is actually to adjust the slowpath of
get_random_u32_below() to have its undefined 0 result just return the
output of get_random_u32(). We can make this basically free by calling
get_random_u32() before the branch, so that the branch latency gets
interleaved.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # to ease future backports that use this api
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
index 3a82c0a8bc46..bd954ecbef90 100644
--- a/include/linux/random.h
+++ b/include/linux/random.h
@@ -92,6 +92,31 @@ static inline u32 get_random_u32_below(u32 ceil)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Returns a random integer in the interval (floor, U32_MAX], with uniform
+ * distribution, suitable for all uses. Fastest when floor is a constant, but
+ * still fast for variable floor as well.
+ */
+static inline u32 get_random_u32_above(u32 floor)
+{
+	BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(__builtin_constant_p(floor) && floor == U32_MAX,
+			 "get_random_u32_above() must take floor < U32_MAX");
+	return floor + 1 + get_random_u32_below(U32_MAX - floor);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Returns a random integer in the interval [floor, ceil], with uniform
+ * distribution, suitable for all uses. Fastest when floor and ceil are
+ * constant, but still fast for variable floor and ceil as well.
+ */
+static inline u32 get_random_u32_inclusive(u32 floor, u32 ceil)
+{
+	BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(__builtin_constant_p(floor) && __builtin_constant_p(ceil) &&
+			 (floor > ceil || ceil - floor == U32_MAX),
+			 "get_random_u32_inclusive() must take floor <= ceil");
+	return floor + get_random_u32_below(ceil - floor + 1);
+}
+
+/*
  * On 64-bit architectures, protect against non-terminated C string overflows
  * by zeroing out the first byte of the canary; this leaves 56 bits of entropy.
  */