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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:18:01 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ker.com>, "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@...el.com>,
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Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
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LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] printk: hash addresses printed with %p
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
> static void fill_random_ptr_key(struct random_ready_callback *rdy)
> {
> get_random_bytes(&ptr_secret, sizeof(ptr_secret));
> static_branch_disable(&no_ptr_secret);
> }
>
> static struct random_ready_callback random_ready = {
> .func = fill_random_ptr_key
> };
>
> static int __init initialize_ptr_random(void)
> {
> int ret = add_random_ready_callback(&random_ready);
>
> if (!ret)
> return 0;
> else if (ret == -EALREADY) {
> fill_random_ptr_key(&random_ready);
> return 0;
> }
>
> return ret;
> }
> early_initcall(initialize_ptr_random);
Tangent: why is the random_ready API designed with -EALREADY? Couldn't
add_random_ready_callback() just perform the call itself and avoid
needing all the callers to check for -EALREADY?
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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