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crypto: rng - ensure that the RNG is ready before using

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Otherwise, we might be seeding the RNG using bad randomness, which is
dangerous. The one use of this function from within the kernel -- not
from userspace -- is being removed (keys/big_key), so that call site
isn't relevant in assessing this.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Jason A. Donenfeld 2017-07-16 19:22:06 +02:00 committed by Herbert Xu
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commit c2176f0098
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@ -43,12 +43,14 @@ int crypto_rng_reset(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen)
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
get_random_bytes(buf, slen);
err = get_random_bytes_wait(buf, slen);
if (err)
goto out;
seed = buf;
}
err = crypto_rng_alg(tfm)->seed(tfm, seed, slen);
out:
kzfree(buf);
return err;
}