Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "Jason A. Donenfeld" <> | Subject | [PATCH] sethostname: dump new hostname into RNG | Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:40:39 +0200 |
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On some small machines with little entropy, a quasi-unique hostname is sometimes a relevant factor. I've seen, for example, 8 character alpha-numeric serial numbers. In addition, the time at which the hostname is set is usually a decent measurement of how long early boot took. So, call add_device_randomness() on new hostnames, which feeds its arguments to the RNG in addition to a fresh cycle counter.
Low cost hooks like this never hurt and can only ever help, and since this costs basically nothing for an operation that is never a fast path, this is an overall easy win.
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> --- kernel/sys.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index b911fa6d81ab..7b7f973ea585 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1366,6 +1366,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sethostname, char __user *, name, int, len) if (!copy_from_user(tmp, name, len)) { struct new_utsname *u; + add_device_randomness(tmp, len); down_write(&uts_sem); u = utsname(); memcpy(u->nodename, tmp, len); -- 2.37.3
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