Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "Jason A. Donenfeld" <> | Subject | [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using | Date | Tue, 6 Jun 2017 02:50:59 +0200 |
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Otherwise, we might be seeding the RNG using bad randomness, which is dangerous.
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> --- crypto/rng.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/rng.c b/crypto/rng.c index f46dac5288b9..e042437e64b4 100644 --- a/crypto/rng.c +++ b/crypto/rng.c @@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ 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; } -- 2.13.0
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