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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/random.c60
1 files changed, 52 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index c295765..867b823 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -272,10 +272,12 @@
/*
* Configuration information
*/
-#define INPUT_POOL_WORDS 128
-#define OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS 32
-#define SEC_XFER_SIZE 512
-#define EXTRACT_SIZE 10
+#define INPUT_POOL_SHIFT 12
+#define INPUT_POOL_WORDS (1 << (INPUT_POOL_SHIFT-5))
+#define OUTPUT_POOL_SHIFT 10
+#define OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS (1 << (OUTPUT_POOL_SHIFT-5))
+#define SEC_XFER_SIZE 512
+#define EXTRACT_SIZE 10
#define LONGS(x) (((x) + sizeof(unsigned long) - 1)/sizeof(unsigned long))
@@ -284,6 +286,9 @@
* this many fractional bits:
*
* entropy_count, trickle_thresh
+ *
+ * 2*(ENTROPY_SHIFT + log2(poolbits)) must <= 31, or the multiply in
+ * credit_entropy_bits() needs to be 64 bits wide.
*/
#define ENTROPY_SHIFT 3
#define ENTROPY_BITS(r) ((r)->entropy_count >> ENTROPY_SHIFT)
@@ -427,7 +432,7 @@ module_param(debug, bool, 0644);
struct entropy_store;
struct entropy_store {
/* read-only data: */
- struct poolinfo *poolinfo;
+ const struct poolinfo *poolinfo;
__u32 *pool;
const char *name;
struct entropy_store *pull;
@@ -596,6 +601,8 @@ static void fast_mix(struct fast_pool *f, const void *in, int nbytes)
static void credit_entropy_bits(struct entropy_store *r, int nbits)
{
int entropy_count, orig;
+ const int pool_size = r->poolinfo->poolfracbits;
+ int nfrac = nbits << ENTROPY_SHIFT;
if (!nbits)
return;
@@ -603,13 +610,50 @@ static void credit_entropy_bits(struct entropy_store *r, int nbits)
DEBUG_ENT("added %d entropy credits to %s\n", nbits, r->name);
retry:
entropy_count = orig = ACCESS_ONCE(r->entropy_count);
- entropy_count += nbits << ENTROPY_SHIFT;
+ if (nfrac < 0) {
+ /* Debit */
+ entropy_count += nfrac;
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * Credit: we have to account for the possibility of
+ * overwriting already present entropy. Even in the
+ * ideal case of pure Shannon entropy, new contributions
+ * approach the full value asymptotically:
+ *
+ * entropy <- entropy + (pool_size - entropy) *
+ * (1 - exp(-add_entropy/pool_size))
+ *
+ * For add_entropy <= pool_size/2 then
+ * (1 - exp(-add_entropy/pool_size)) >=
+ * (add_entropy/pool_size)*0.7869...
+ * so we can approximate the exponential with
+ * 3/4*add_entropy/pool_size and still be on the
+ * safe side by adding at most pool_size/2 at a time.
+ *
+ * The use of pool_size-2 in the while statement is to
+ * prevent rounding artifacts from making the loop
+ * arbitrarily long; this limits the loop to log2(pool_size)*2
+ * turns no matter how large nbits is.
+ */
+ int pnfrac = nfrac;
+ const int s = r->poolinfo->poolbitshift + ENTROPY_SHIFT + 2;
+ /* The +2 corresponds to the /4 in the denominator */
+
+ do {
+ unsigned int anfrac = min(pnfrac, pool_size/2);
+ unsigned int add =
+ ((pool_size - entropy_count)*anfrac*3) >> s;
+
+ entropy_count += add;
+ pnfrac -= anfrac;
+ } while (unlikely(entropy_count < pool_size-2 && pnfrac));
+ }
if (entropy_count < 0) {
DEBUG_ENT("negative entropy/overflow\n");
entropy_count = 0;
- } else if (entropy_count > r->poolinfo->poolfracbits)
- entropy_count = r->poolinfo->poolfracbits;
+ } else if (entropy_count > pool_size)
+ entropy_count = pool_size;
if (cmpxchg(&r->entropy_count, orig, entropy_count) != orig)
goto retry;