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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 19:46:43 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: get_random_bytes returns bad randomness
before seeding is complete
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com> wrote:
> One of the early uses is initializing the stack canary value for SSP in
> very early boot. If that blocks, it's going to be blocking nearly
> anything else from happening.
>
> On x86, that's only the initial canary since the per-task canaries end
> up being used, but elsewhere at least without SMP disabled or changes to
> GCC that's all there is so the entropy matters.
If this is the case, then we simply need a function called
get_random_bytes_but_potentially_crappy_ones_because_we_are_desperate_for_anything(),
which would respond with a weaker guarantee than that
get_random_bytes(), which the documentation says always returns
cryptographically secure numbers.
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