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Jason A. Donenfeld 38c5d24d87 random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy() 
[ Upstream commit d7bf7f3b81 ]

add_latent_entropy() is called every time a process forks, in
kernel_clone(). This in turn calls add_device_randomness() using the
latent entropy global state. add_device_randomness() does two things:

   2) Mixes into the input pool the latent entropy argument passed; and
   1) Mixes in a cycle counter, a sort of measurement of when the event
      took place, the high precision bits of which are presumably
      difficult to predict.

(2) is impossible without CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=y. But (1) is
always possible. However, currently CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=n
disables both (1) and (2), instead of just (2).

This commit causes the CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY=n case to still
do (1) by passing NULL (len 0) to add_device_randomness() when add_latent_
entropy() is called.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Fixes: 38addce8b6 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2023-02-25 11:25:39 +01:00
arch powerpc: dts: t208x: Mark MAC1 and MAC2 as 10G 2023-02-25 11:25:38 +01:00
block block, bfq: fix uaf for bfqq in bic_set_bfqq() 2023-02-09 11:28:06 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
Documentation Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions 2023-02-14 19:11:56 +01:00
drivers clk: mxl: syscon_node_to_regmap() returns error pointers 2023-02-25 11:25:39 +01:00
fs revert "squashfs: harden sanity check in squashfs_read_xattr_id_table" 2023-02-22 12:59:50 +01:00
include random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy() 2023-02-25 11:25:39 +01:00
init gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too 2023-01-14 10:33:43 +01:00
io_uring use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel sched/psi: Stop relying on timer_pending() for poll_work rescheduling 2023-02-25 11:25:39 +01:00
lib maple_tree: fix mas_empty_area_rev() lower bound validation 2023-02-09 11:28:23 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/gup: add folio to list when folio_isolate_lru() succeed 2023-02-22 12:59:54 +01:00
net net: sched: sch: Fix off by one in htb_activate_prios() 2023-02-22 12:59:56 +01:00
rust rust: print: avoid evaluating arguments in pr_* macros in unsafe blocks 2023-02-06 08:06:34 +01:00
samples ftrace: Export ftrace_free_filter() to modules 2023-02-01 08:34:37 +01:00
scripts kbuild: modinst: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is a PKCS#11 URI 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
security use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
sound ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-dai: fix possible stream_tag leak 2023-02-22 12:59:56 +01:00
tools Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()." 2023-02-22 12:59:50 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: Fix potential deadlock on vfio group_lock 2023-02-01 08:34:36 +01:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs 2023-01-24 07:24:41 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.13 2023-02-22 12:59:56 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.