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Commit d7bf7f3b authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld
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random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()



add_latent_entropy() is called every time a process forks, in
kernel_clone(). This in turn calls add_device_randomness() using the
latent entropy global state. add_device_randomness() does two things:

   2) Mixes into the input pool the latent entropy argument passed; and
   1) Mixes in a cycle counter, a sort of measurement of when the event
      took place, the high precision bits of which are presumably
      difficult to predict.

(2) is impossible without CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y. But (1) is
always possible. However, currently CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=n
disables both (1) and (2), instead of just (2).

This commit causes the CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=n case to still
do (1) by passing NULL (len 0) to add_device_randomness() when add_latent_
entropy() is called.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Fixes: 38addce8 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
parent db516da9
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