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| author | George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org> | 2020-08-09 06:57:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> | 2020-10-24 20:21:57 +0200 |
| commit | c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fa567b3e70dc16bd397c3b01b987ea932393ccb /kernel/time/timer.c | |
| parent | f11901ed723d1351843771c3a84b03a253bbf8b2 (diff) | |
random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable
Non-cryptographic PRNGs may have great statistical properties, but
are usually trivially predictable to someone who knows the algorithm,
given a small sample of their output. An LFSR like prandom_u32() is
particularly simple, even if the sample is widely scattered bits.
It turns out the network stack uses prandom_u32() for some things like
random port numbers which it would prefer are *not* trivially predictable.
Predictability led to a practical DNS spoofing attack. Oops.
This patch replaces the LFSR with a homebrew cryptographic PRNG based
on the SipHash round function, which is in turn seeded with 128 bits
of strong random key. (The authors of SipHash have *not* been consulted
about this abuse of their algorithm.) Speed is prioritized over security;
attacks are rare, while performance is always wanted.
Replacing all callers of prandom_u32() is the quick fix.
Whether to reinstate a weaker PRNG for uses which can tolerate it
is an open question.
Commit f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt
and activity") was an earlier attempt at a solution. This patch replaces
it.
Reported-by: Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Marc Plumb <lkml.mplumb@gmail.com>
Fixes: f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity")
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/
[ willy: partial reversal of f227e3ec3b5c; moved SIPROUND definitions
to prandom.h for later use; merged George's prandom_seed() proposal;
inlined siprand_u32(); replaced the net_rand_state[] array with 4
members to fix a build issue; cosmetic cleanups to make checkpatch
happy; fixed RANDOM32_SELFTEST build ]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time/timer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/timer.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c index dda05f4b7a1f..3e341af741b9 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timer.c +++ b/kernel/time/timer.c @@ -1717,13 +1717,6 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick) scheduler_tick(); if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS)) run_posix_cpu_timers(); - - /* The current CPU might make use of net randoms without receiving IRQs - * to renew them often enough. Let's update the net_rand_state from a - * non-constant value that's not affine to the number of calls to make - * sure it's updated when there's some activity (we don't care in idle). - */ - this_cpu_add(net_rand_state.s1, rol32(jiffies, 24) + user_tick); } /** |