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authorWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2020-08-10 10:27:42 +0200
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2020-10-24 20:21:57 +0200
commit3744741adab6d9195551ce30e65e726c7a408421 (patch)
treeb648d69ce8233c9f39e0018fe22b486c632996f4 /kernel
parentc51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 (diff)
downloadlinux-3744741adab6d9195551ce30e65e726c7a408421.tar.gz
random32: add noise from network and scheduling activity
With the removal of the interrupt perturbations in previous random32
change (random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable), the PRNG
has become 100% deterministic again. While SipHash is expected to be
way more robust against brute force than the previous Tausworthe LFSR,
there's still the risk that whoever has even one temporary access to
the PRNG's internal state is able to predict all subsequent draws till
the next reseed (roughly every minute). This may happen through a side
channel attack or any data leak.

This patch restores the spirit of commit f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update
the net random state on interrupt and activity") in that it will perturb
the internal PRNG's statee using externally collected noise, except that
it will not pick that noise from the random pool's bits nor upon
interrupt, but will rather combine a few elements along the Tx path
that are collectively hard to predict, such as dev, skb and txq
pointers, packet length and jiffies values. These ones are combined
using a single round of SipHash into a single long variable that is
mixed with the net_rand_state upon each invocation.

The operation was inlined because it produces very small and efficient
code, typically 3 xor, 2 add and 2 rol. The performance was measured
to be the same (even very slightly better) than before the switch to
SipHash; on a 6-core 12-thread Core i7-8700k equipped with a 40G NIC
(i40e), the connection rate dropped from 556k/s to 555k/s while the
SYN cookie rate grew from 5.38 Mpps to 5.45 Mpps.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/
Cc: George Spelvin <lkml@sdf.org>
Cc: Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Marc Plumb <lkml.mplumb@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timer.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer.c b/kernel/time/timer.c
index 3e341af741b9..de37e33a868d 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer.c
@@ -1706,6 +1706,8 @@ void update_process_times(int user_tick)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p = current;
 
+	PRANDOM_ADD_NOISE(jiffies, user_tick, p, 0);
+
 	/* Note: this timer irq context must be accounted for as well. */
 	account_process_tick(p, user_tick);
 	run_local_timers();