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authorLuke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net>2016-06-06 19:36:03 -0400
committerLuke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net>2016-06-06 19:36:03 -0400
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+/***
+ This file is part of systemd.
+
+ Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
+
+ systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+***/
+
+#include <elf.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
+#include <sys/auxv.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "fd-util.h"
+#include "io-util.h"
+#include "missing.h"
+#include "random-util.h"
+#include "time-util.h"
+
+int dev_urandom(void *p, size_t n) {
+ static int have_syscall = -1;
+
+ _cleanup_close_ int fd = -1;
+ int r;
+
+ /* Gathers some randomness from the kernel. This call will
+ * never block, and will always return some data from the
+ * kernel, regardless if the random pool is fully initialized
+ * or not. It thus makes no guarantee for the quality of the
+ * returned entropy, but is good enough for or usual usecases
+ * of seeding the hash functions for hashtable */
+
+ /* Use the getrandom() syscall unless we know we don't have
+ * it, or when the requested size is too large for it. */
+ if (have_syscall != 0 || (size_t) (int) n != n) {
+ r = getrandom(p, n, GRND_NONBLOCK);
+ if (r == (int) n) {
+ have_syscall = true;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (r < 0) {
+ if (errno == ENOSYS)
+ /* we lack the syscall, continue with
+ * reading from /dev/urandom */
+ have_syscall = false;
+ else if (errno == EAGAIN)
+ /* not enough entropy for now. Let's
+ * remember to use the syscall the
+ * next time, again, but also read
+ * from /dev/urandom for now, which
+ * doesn't care about the current
+ * amount of entropy. */
+ have_syscall = true;
+ else
+ return -errno;
+ } else
+ /* too short read? */
+ return -ENODATA;
+ }
+
+ fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ return errno == ENOENT ? -ENOSYS : -errno;
+
+ return loop_read_exact(fd, p, n, true);
+}
+
+void initialize_srand(void) {
+ static bool srand_called = false;
+ unsigned x;
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
+ void *auxv;
+#endif
+
+ if (srand_called)
+ return;
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
+ /* The kernel provides us with 16 bytes of entropy in auxv, so let's try to make use of that to seed the
+ * pseudo-random generator. It's better than nothing... */
+
+ auxv = (void*) getauxval(AT_RANDOM);
+ if (auxv) {
+ assert_cc(sizeof(x) < 16);
+ memcpy(&x, auxv, sizeof(x));
+ } else
+#endif
+ x = 0;
+
+
+ x ^= (unsigned) now(CLOCK_REALTIME);
+ x ^= (unsigned) gettid();
+
+ srand(x);
+ srand_called = true;
+}
+
+void random_bytes(void *p, size_t n) {
+ uint8_t *q;
+ int r;
+
+ r = dev_urandom(p, n);
+ if (r >= 0)
+ return;
+
+ /* If some idiot made /dev/urandom unavailable to us, he'll
+ * get a PRNG instead. */
+
+ initialize_srand();
+
+ for (q = p; q < (uint8_t*) p + n; q ++)
+ *q = rand();
+}