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Subject[PATCH] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using
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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>
---
crypto/rng.c | 6 ++++--
1 file 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;
}
--
2.13.3
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