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| author | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2022-09-08 16:14:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> | 2022-09-23 12:27:57 +0200 |
| commit | cd4f24ae9404fd31fc461066e57889be3b68641b (patch) | |
| tree | b6b6655935101c5924b00a7504cadcb47f3040b0 /drivers/char/mem.c | |
| parent | 504c25cb76a9cb805407f7701b25a1fbd48605fa (diff) | |
random: restore O_NONBLOCK support
Prior to 5.6, when /dev/random was opened with O_NONBLOCK, it would
return -EAGAIN if there was no entropy. When the pools were unified in
5.6, this was lost. The post 5.6 behavior of blocking until the pool is
initialized, and ignoring O_NONBLOCK in the process, went unnoticed,
with no reports about the regression received for two and a half years.
However, eventually this indeed did break somebody's userspace.
So we restore the old behavior, by returning -EAGAIN if the pool is not
initialized. Unlike the old /dev/random, this can only occur during
early boot, after which it never blocks again.
In order to make this O_NONBLOCK behavior consistent with other
expectations, also respect users reading with preadv2(RWF_NOWAIT) and
similar.
Fixes: 30c08efec888 ("random: make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom")
Reported-by: Guozihua <guozihua@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Zhongguohua <zhongguohua1@huawei.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/mem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/mem.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c index 32a932a065a6..5611d127363e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/mem.c +++ b/drivers/char/mem.c @@ -712,8 +712,8 @@ static const struct memdev { #endif [5] = { "zero", 0666, &zero_fops, FMODE_NOWAIT }, [7] = { "full", 0666, &full_fops, 0 }, - [8] = { "random", 0666, &random_fops, 0 }, - [9] = { "urandom", 0666, &urandom_fops, 0 }, + [8] = { "random", 0666, &random_fops, FMODE_NOWAIT }, + [9] = { "urandom", 0666, &urandom_fops, FMODE_NOWAIT }, #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK [11] = { "kmsg", 0644, &kmsg_fops, 0 }, #endif |