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random: invalidate batched entropy after crng init
It's possible that get_random_{u32,u64} is used before the crng has initialized, in which case, its output might not be cryptographically secure. For this problem, directly, this patch set is introducing the *_wait variety of functions, but even with that, there's a subtle issue: what happens to our batched entropy that was generated before initialization. Prior to this commit, it'd stick around, supplying bad numbers. After this commit, we force the entropy to be re-extracted after each phase of the crng has initialized. In order to avoid a race condition with the position counter, we introduce a simple rwlock for this invalidation. Since it's only during this awkward transition period, after things are all set up, we stop using it, so that it doesn't have an impact on performance. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.11+
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