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random: cap the rate which the /dev/urandom pool gets reseeded

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In order to avoid draining the input pool of its entropy at too high
of a rate, enforce a minimum time interval between reseedings of the
urandom pool.  This is set to 60 seconds by default.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o 2013-09-22 15:14:32 -04:00
parent c59974aea4
commit f5c2742c23
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drivers/char/random.c
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@ -306,6 +306,13 @@ static int random_read_wakeup_thresh = 64;
*/
static int random_write_wakeup_thresh = 128;
/*
* The minimum number of seconds between urandom pool resending. We
* do this to limit the amount of entropy that can be drained from the
* input pool even if there are heavy demands on /dev/urandom.
*/
static int random_min_urandom_seed = 60;
/*
* When the input pool goes over trickle_thresh, start dropping most
* samples to avoid wasting CPU time and reduce lock contention.
@ -438,6 +445,7 @@ struct entropy_store {
struct entropy_store *pull;
/* read-write data: */
unsigned long last_pulled;
spinlock_t lock;
unsigned short add_ptr;
unsigned short input_rotate;
@ -887,6 +895,14 @@ static void xfer_secondary_pool(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes)
{
__u32 tmp[OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS];
if (r->limit == 0 && random_min_urandom_seed) {
unsigned long now = jiffies;
if (time_before(now,
r->last_pulled + random_min_urandom_seed * HZ))
return;
r->last_pulled = now;
}
if (r->pull &&
r->entropy_count < (nbytes << (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3)) &&
r->entropy_count < r->poolinfo->poolfracbits) {
@ -1190,6 +1206,7 @@ static void init_std_data(struct entropy_store *r)
r->entropy_count = 0;
r->entropy_total = 0;
r->last_data_init = 0;
r->last_pulled = jiffies;
mix_pool_bytes(r, &now, sizeof(now), NULL);
for (i = r->poolinfo->poolbytes; i > 0; i -= sizeof(rv)) {
if (!arch_get_random_long(&rv))
@ -1540,6 +1557,13 @@ struct ctl_table random_table[] = {
.extra1 = &min_write_thresh,
.extra2 = &max_write_thresh,
},
{
.procname = "urandom_min_reseed_secs",
.data = &random_min_urandom_seed,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
{
.procname = "boot_id",
.data = &sysctl_bootid,