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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] random: avoid init'ing twice in credit race
Hi Dominik,

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 08:23:40AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Am Mon, May 09, 2022 at 02:14:08PM +0200 schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld:
> > Since all changes of crng_init now go through credit_init_bits(), we can
> > fix a long standing race in which two concurrent callers of
> > credit_init_bits() have the new bit count >= some threshold, but are
> > doing so with crng_init as a lower threshold, checked outside of a lock,
> > resulting in crng_reseed() or similar being called twice.
>
> Sidenote: crng_reseed() did manage quite fine if called twice in short
> order.

With regards to crng_finialize, it did, but not with regards to
prematurely emptying patches and all that. IOW, buggy but not that bad.

>
> > In order to fix this, we can use the original cmpxchg value of the bit
> > count, and only change crng_init when the bit count transitions from
> > below a threshold to meeting the threshold.
> >
> > Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
>
> Thanks,
> Dominik

Jason

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