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| author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2017-07-16 19:22:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2017-07-28 17:56:00 +0800 |
| commit | c2176f0098d994050c88d34d37c551d033f2f18f (patch) | |
| tree | b419a0bc96214cd9e896da300f380bb3ea013a3c /crypto | |
| parent | 8a1012d3f2abcef43470f879dbfd72651818e059 (diff) | |
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crypto: rng - ensure that the RNG is ready before using
Otherwise, we might be seeding the RNG using bad randomness, which is
dangerous. The one use of this function from within the kernel -- not
from userspace -- is being removed (keys/big_key), so that call site
isn't relevant in assessing this.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/rng.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/rng.c b/crypto/rng.c index 5e8469244960..b4a618668161 100644 --- a/crypto/rng.c +++ b/crypto/rng.c @@ -43,12 +43,14 @@ int crypto_rng_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen) if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; - get_random_bytes(buf, slen); + err = get_random_bytes_wait(buf, slen); + if (err) + goto out; seed = buf; } err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->seed(tfm, seed, slen); - +out: kzfree(buf); return err; } |