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Revert "netfilter: avoid get_random_bytes calls"
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This reverts commit a42b99a.

Hannes Frederic Sowa reported some problems with this patch, more specifically
that prandom_u32() may not be ready at boot time, see:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=138896532403533&w=2

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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Pablo Neira Ayuso committed Jan 6, 2014
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
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@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/jhash.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/netfilter/nf_log.h>
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ struct nfulnl_instance {
};

#define INSTANCE_BUCKETS 16
static unsigned int hash_init;

static int nfnl_log_net_id __read_mostly;

@@ -1063,6 +1066,11 @@ static int __init nfnetlink_log_init(void)
{
int status = -ENOMEM;

/* it's not really all that important to have a random value, so
* we can do this from the init function, even if there hasn't
* been that much entropy yet */
get_random_bytes(&hash_init, sizeof(hash_init));

netlink_register_notifier(&nfulnl_rtnl_notifier);
status = nfnetlink_subsys_register(&nfulnl_subsys);
if (status < 0) {
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
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@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_set *set,
unsigned int cnt, i;

if (unlikely(!nft_hash_rnd_initted)) {
nft_hash_rnd = prandom_u32();
get_random_bytes(&nft_hash_rnd, 4);
nft_hash_rnd_initted = true;
}

2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c
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@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int xt_rateest_tg_checkentry(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
int ret;

if (unlikely(!rnd_inited)) {
jhash_rnd = prandom_u32();
get_random_bytes(&jhash_rnd, sizeof(jhash_rnd));
rnd_inited = true;
}

2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c
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@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int connlimit_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)
u_int32_t rand;

do {
rand = prandom_u32();
get_random_bytes(&rand, sizeof(rand));
} while (!rand);
cmpxchg(&connlimit_rnd, 0, rand);
}
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
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@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ dsthash_alloc_init(struct xt_hashlimit_htable *ht,
/* initialize hash with random val at the time we allocate
* the first hashtable entry */
if (unlikely(!ht->rnd_initialized)) {
ht->rnd = prandom_u32();
get_random_bytes(&ht->rnd, sizeof(ht->rnd));
ht->rnd_initialized = true;
}

2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion net/netfilter/xt_recent.c
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@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static int recent_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par,
size_t sz;

if (unlikely(!hash_rnd_inited)) {
hash_rnd = prandom_u32();
get_random_bytes(&hash_rnd, sizeof(hash_rnd));
hash_rnd_inited = true;
}
if (info->check_set & ~XT_RECENT_VALID_FLAGS) {

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