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[v3] gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom

Message ID 20220404230709.124508-1-Jason@zx2c4.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series [v3] gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom | expand

Commit Message

Jason A. Donenfeld April 4, 2022, 11:07 p.m. UTC
While the latent entropy plugin mostly doesn't derive entropy from
get_random_const() for measuring the call graph, when __latent_entropy is
applied to a constant, then it's initialized statically to output from
get_random_const(). In that case, this data is derived from a 64-bit
seed, which means a buffer of 512 bits doesn't really have that amount
of compile-time entropy.

This patch fixes that shortcoming by just buffering chunks of
/dev/urandom output and doling it out as requested.

At the same time, it's important that we don't break the use of
-frandom-seed, for people who want the runtime benefits of the latent
entropy plugin, while still having compile-time determinism. In that
case, we detect whether a seed is in use via the local_ticks variable,
which the documentation explains is, "-1u, if the user has specified a
particular random seed."

Fixes: 38addce8b600 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
Changes v2->v3:
- Drop change to xorshift for deterministic thing. This can be done
  later if anybody actually finds a good reason for it.
- Drop change of plugin version. Since Kees is proposing a change in
  the versioning scheme, that can also be a separate patch.
- At Pipacs' suggestion, use local_ticks for determining if
  -frandom-seed is being used, since that's what gcc says to do.

 scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c | 44 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
index 589454bce930..435b956ac1bd 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
@@ -87,24 +87,40 @@  static struct plugin_info latent_entropy_plugin_info = {
 };
 
 static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT seed;
-/*
- * get_random_seed() (this is a GCC function) generates the seed.
- * This is a simple random generator without any cryptographic security because
- * the entropy doesn't come from here.
- */
+static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT rnd_buf[256];
+static size_t rnd_idx = ARRAY_SIZE(rnd_buf);
+static int urandom_fd = -1;
+
 static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT get_random_const(void)
 {
-	unsigned int i;
-	unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT ret = 0;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < 8 * sizeof(ret); i++) {
-		ret = (ret << 1) | (seed & 1);
-		seed >>= 1;
-		if (ret & 1)
-			seed ^= 0xD800000000000000ULL;
+	/*
+	 * When local_tick==-1, the user has specified a seed using
+	 * -frandom-seed, which means we should do something deterministic.
+	 */
+	if (local_tick == -1U) {
+		unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT ret = 0;
+		size_t i;
+
+		for (i = 0; i < 8 * sizeof(ret); i++) {
+			ret = (ret << 1) | (seed & 1);
+			seed >>= 1;
+			if (ret & 1)
+				seed ^= 0xD800000000000000ULL;
+		}
+		return ret;
 	}
 
-	return ret;
+	if (urandom_fd < 0) {
+		urandom_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+		if (urandom_fd < 0)
+			abort();
+	}
+	if (rnd_idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(rnd_buf)) {
+		if (read(urandom_fd, rnd_buf, sizeof(rnd_buf)) != sizeof(rnd_buf))
+			abort();
+		rnd_idx = 0;
+	}
+	return rnd_buf[rnd_idx++];
 }
 
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