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Kernel: Use word-sized entropy as much as possible in syscall

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Calvin Buckley 2019-10-13 12:55:58 -03:00 committed by Andreas Kling
parent aa42f56210
commit 5050f7b5ee
2 changed files with 19 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -3088,12 +3088,25 @@ int Process::sys$getrandom(void* buffer, size_t buffer_size, unsigned int flags
if (!validate_write(buffer, buffer_size)) if (!validate_write(buffer, buffer_size))
return -EFAULT; return -EFAULT;
// XXX: We probably lose a lot of entropy here, out of an already marginal
// PRNG. A better implementation would not throw away bits for the sake of // We prefer to get whole words of entropy.
// array indexing, and use a better PRNG in the first place. // If the length is unaligned, we can work with bytes instead.
uint8_t* bytes = (uint8_t*)buffer; // Mask out the bottom two bits for words.
for (size_t i = 0; i < buffer_size; i++) size_t words_len = buffer_size & ~3;
bytes[i] = (uint8_t)(RandomDevice::random_value() % 255); if (words_len) {
uint32_t* words = (uint32_t*)buffer;
for (size_t i = 0; i < words_len / 4; i++)
words[i] = RandomDevice::random_value();
}
// The remaining non-whole word bytes we can fill in.
size_t bytes_len = buffer_size & 3;
if (bytes_len) {
uint8_t* bytes = (uint8_t*)buffer + words_len;
// Get a whole word of entropy to use.
uint32_t word = RandomDevice::random_value();
for (size_t i = 0; i < bytes_len; i++)
bytes[i] = ((uint8_t*)&word)[i];
}
return 0; return 0;
} }

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@ -511,9 +511,6 @@ unsigned long long strtoull(const char* str, char** endptr, int base)
uint32_t arc4random(void) uint32_t arc4random(void)
{ {
char buf[4]; char buf[4];
// XXX: RandomDevice does return a uint32_t but the syscall works with
// a byte at a time. It could be better optimzied for this use case
// while remaining generic.
syscall(SC_getrandom, buf, 4, 0); syscall(SC_getrandom, buf, 4, 0);
return *(uint32_t*)buf; return *(uint32_t*)buf;
} }