1. 18 12月, 2012 2 次提交
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      prandom: introduce prandom_bytes() and prandom_bytes_state() · 6582c665
      Akinobu Mita 提交于
      Add functions to get the requested number of pseudo-random bytes.
      
      The difference from get_random_bytes() is that it generates pseudo-random
      numbers by prandom_u32().  It doesn't consume the entropy pool, and the
      sequence is reproducible if the same rnd_state is used.  So it is suitable
      for generating random bytes for testing.
      Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
      Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
      Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>
      Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
      Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6582c665
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      random32: rename random32 to prandom · 496f2f93
      Akinobu Mita 提交于
      This renames all random32 functions to have 'prandom_' prefix as follows:
      
        void prandom_seed(u32 seed);	/* rename from srandom32() */
        u32 prandom_u32(void);		/* rename from random32() */
        void prandom_seed_state(struct rnd_state *state, u64 seed);
        				/* rename from prandom32_seed() */
        u32 prandom_u32_state(struct rnd_state *state);
        				/* rename from prandom32() */
      
      The purpose of this renaming is to prevent some kernel developers from
      assuming that prandom32() and random32() might imply that only
      prandom32() was the one using a pseudo-random number generator by
      prandom32's "p", and the result may be a very embarassing security
      exposure.  This concern was expressed by Theodore Ts'o.
      
      And furthermore, I'm going to introduce new functions for getting the
      requested number of pseudo-random bytes.  If I continue to use both
      prandom32 and random32 prefixes for these functions, the confusion
      is getting worse.
      
      As a result of this renaming, "prandom_" is the common prefix for
      pseudo-random number library.
      
      Currently, srandom32() and random32() are preserved because it is
      difficult to rename too many users at once.
      Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
      Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
      Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>
      Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
      Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      496f2f93
  2. 13 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 19 7月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 15 7月, 2012 3 次提交
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      random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function · c2557a30
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      Create a new function, get_random_bytes_arch() which will use the
      architecture-specific hardware random number generator if it is
      present.  Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it
      is avaiable.
      
      The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if
      it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware
      manufacturer to have not put in a back door.  (For example, an
      increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.)
      
      It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US
      Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise
      --- especially since Bull Mountain is documented to use AES as a
      whitener.  Hence, the output of an evil, trojan-horse version of
      RDRAND is statistically indistinguishable from an RDRAND implemented
      to the specifications claimed by Intel.  Short of using a tunnelling
      electronic microscope to reverse engineer an Ivy Bridge chip and
      disassembling and analyzing the CPU microcode, there's no way for us
      to tell for sure.
      
      Since users of get_random_bytes() in the Linux kernel need to be able
      to support hardware systems where the HW RNG is not present, most
      time-sensitive users of this interface have already created their own
      cryptographic RNG interface which uses get_random_bytes() as a seed.
      So it's much better to use the HW RNG to improve the existing random
      number generator, by mixing in any entropy returned by the HW RNG into
      /dev/random's entropy pool, but to always _use_ /dev/random's entropy
      pool.
      
      This way we get almost of the benefits of the HW RNG without any
      potential liabilities.  The only benefits we forgo is the
      speed/performance enhancements --- and generic kernel code can't
      depend on depend on get_random_bytes() having the speed of a HW RNG
      anyway.
      
      For those places that really want access to the arch-specific HW RNG,
      if it is available, we provide get_random_bytes_arch().
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      c2557a30
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      random: create add_device_randomness() interface · a2080a67
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Add a new interface, add_device_randomness() for adding data to the
      random pool that is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly
      even per boot).  This would be things like MAC addresses or serial
      numbers, or the read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual
      entropy to the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values
      for devices that might otherwise be identical and have very little
      entropy available to them (particularly common in the embedded world).
      
      [ Modified by tytso to mix in a timestamp, since there may be some
        variability caused by the time needed to detect/configure the hardware
        in question. ]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      a2080a67
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      random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' do something sane · 775f4b29
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      We've been moving away from add_interrupt_randomness() for various
      reasons: it's too expensive to do on every interrupt, and flooding the
      CPU with interrupts could theoretically cause bogus floods of entropy
      from a somewhat externally controllable source.
      
      This solves both problems by limiting the actual randomness addition
      to just once a second or after 64 interrupts, whicever comes first.
      During that time, the interrupt cycle data is buffered up in a per-cpu
      pool.  Also, we make sure the the nonblocking pool used by urandom is
      initialized before we start feeding the normal input pool.  This
      assures that /dev/urandom is returning unpredictable data as soon as
      possible.
      
      (Based on an original patch by Linus, but significantly modified by
      tytso.)
      Tested-by: NEric Wustrow <ewust@umich.edu>
      Reported-by: NEric Wustrow <ewust@umich.edu>
      Reported-by: NNadia Heninger <nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu>
      Reported-by: NZakir Durumeric <zakir@umich.edu>
      Reported-by: J. Alex Halderman <jhalderm@umich.edu>.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      775f4b29
  5. 07 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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      net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. · 6e5714ea
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Computers have become a lot faster since we compromised on the
      partial MD4 hash which we use currently for performance reasons.
      
      MD5 is a much safer choice, and is inline with both RFC1948 and
      other ISS generators (OpenBSD, Solaris, etc.)
      
      Furthermore, only having 24-bits of the sequence number be truly
      unpredictable is a very serious limitation.  So the periodic
      regeneration and 8-bit counter have been removed.  We compute and
      use a full 32-bit sequence number.
      
      For ipv6, DCCP was found to use a 32-bit truncated initial sequence
      number (it needs 43-bits) and that is fixed here as well.
      Reported-by: NDan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
      Tested-by: NWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6e5714ea
  6. 01 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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      random: Add support for architectural random hooks · 63d77173
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      Add support for architecture-specific hooks into the kernel-directed
      random number generator interfaces.  This patchset does not use the
      architecture random number generator interfaces for the
      userspace-directed interfaces (/dev/random and /dev/urandom), thus
      eliminating the need to distinguish between them based on a pool
      pointer.
      
      Changes in version 3:
      - Moved the hooks from extract_entropy() to get_random_bytes().
      - Changes the hooks to inlines.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      63d77173
  7. 22 7月, 2011 1 次提交
  8. 28 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      lib/random32: export pseudo-random number generator for modules · 5960164f
      Joe Eykholt 提交于
      This patch moves the definition of struct rnd_state and the inline
      __seed() function to linux/random.h.  It renames the static __random32()
      function to prandom32() and exports it for use in modules.
      
      prandom32() is useful as a privately-seeded pseudo random number generator
      that can give the same result every time it is initialized.
      
      For FCoE FC-BB-6 VN2VN mode self-selected unique FC address generation, we
      need an pseudo-random number generator seeded with the 64-bit world-wide
      port name.  A truly random generator or one seeded with randomness won't
      do because the same sequence of numbers should be generated each time we
      boot or the link comes up.
      
      A prandom32_seed() inline function is added to the header file.  It is
      inlined not for speed, but so the function won't be expanded in the base
      kernel, but only in the module that uses it.
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Eykholt <jeykholt@cisco.com>
      Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5960164f
  9. 31 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  10. 04 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 12 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms · 0ebb26e7
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Impact: build fix
      
      fix:
      
       In file included from /home/mingo/tip/arch/m68k/amiga/amiints.c:39:
       /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/interrupt.h:21: error: expected identifier or '('
       /home/mingo/tip/arch/m68k/amiga/amiints.c: In function 'amiga_init_IRQ':
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0ebb26e7
  12. 08 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes · 0b8f1efa
      Yinghai Lu 提交于
      Impact: new feature
      
      Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
      NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
      larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.
      
      To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
      irq_desc pointers.
      
      When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
      this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
      request_irq()).
      
      This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
      uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.
      Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0b8f1efa
  13. 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  14. 03 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 17 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 04 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  17. 30 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  18. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4