git: ba2f52819c51 - stable/12 - Fortuna: Fix a race to prevent reseed spamming
David E. O'Brien
obrien at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 6 05:13:32 UTC 2021
The branch stable/12 has been updated by obrien:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ba2f52819c51853ce9f158878f13da736718fad2
commit ba2f52819c51853ce9f158878f13da736718fad2
Author: Conrad Meyer <cem at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2018-10-20 21:09:12 +0000
Commit: David E. O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-08-06 05:12:00 +0000
Fortuna: Fix a race to prevent reseed spamming
If multiple threads enter fortuna_pre_read contemporaneously, such as via
read(2) or getrandom(2), they could race to check how long it has been since
the last update due to a TOCTOU problem with 'now'.
Here is an example problematic execution:
Thread A: Thread B:
now_A = getsbinuptime();
now_B = getsbinuptime(); // now_B > now_A
RANDOM_RESEED_LOCK();
if (now - fs_lasttime > SBT_1S/10) {
fs_lasttime = now;
... // reseed
}
RANDOM_RESEED_UNLOCK();
RANDOM_RESEED_LOCK();
if (now_A - fs_lasttime > SBT_1S/10) // now_A - fs_lasttime underflows
fs_lasttime = now_A;
... // reseed again, despite less than 100ms elapsing
}
RANDOM_RESEED_UNLOCK();
To resolve the race, simply check the current time after we win the lock
race.
If getsbinuptime is perceived to be expensive, another option might be to
just accept the race and validate that fs_lasttime isn't "in the future."
(It should be within the last ~2^31 seconds out of ~2^32 seconds
representable duration.)
Reviewed by: delphij, markm
Approved by: secteam (delphij)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16984
(cherry picked from commit 5528565a76f5caae336d4f13213108dc1fad4ae0)
---
sys/dev/random/fortuna.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sys/dev/random/fortuna.c b/sys/dev/random/fortuna.c
index 6382d47b1415..f9a29fd5a596 100644
--- a/sys/dev/random/fortuna.c
+++ b/sys/dev/random/fortuna.c
@@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ random_fortuna_pre_read(void)
u_int i;
KASSERT(fortuna_state.fs_minpoolsize > 0, ("random: Fortuna threshold must be > 0"));
+ RANDOM_RESEED_LOCK();
#ifdef _KERNEL
/* FS&K - Use 'getsbinuptime()' to prevent reseed-spamming. */
now = getsbinuptime();
#endif
- RANDOM_RESEED_LOCK();
if (fortuna_state.fs_pool[0].fsp_length >= fortuna_state.fs_minpoolsize
#ifdef _KERNEL
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