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Commit f227e3ec authored by Willy Tarreau's avatar Willy Tarreau Committed by Linus Torvalds
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random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity



This modifies the first 32 bits out of the 128 bits of a random CPU's
net_rand_state on interrupt or CPU activity to complicate remote
observations that could lead to guessing the network RNG's internal
state.

Note that depending on some network devices' interrupt rate moderation
or binding, this re-seeding might happen on every packet or even almost
never.

In addition, with NOHZ some CPUs might not even get timer interrupts,
leaving their local state rarely updated, while they are running
networked processes making use of the random state.  For this reason, we
also perform this update in update_process_times() in order to at least
update the state when there is user or system activity, since it's the
only case we care about.

Reported-by: default avatarAmit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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