linux-kernel - random: negative entropy/overflow: pool input count -40000

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:26:12 +0200
From:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: random: negative entropy/overflow: pool input count -40000

Hello,

The following program triggers a WARNING. Looks like some missing user
input validation.

random: negative entropy/overflow: pool input count -40000
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6828 at drivers/char/random.c:670[<      none
 >] credit_entropy_bits+0x21e/0xad0 drivers/char/random.c:670
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 6828 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.7.0-rc4+ #4
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
 ffffffff880b58e0 ffff88005dd9fcb0 ffffffff82cc838f ffffffff87158b40
 fffffbfff1016b1c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff87158b40
 ffffffff83283dae 0000000000000009 ffff88005dd9fcf8 ffffffff8136d27f
Call Trace:
 [<     inline     >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15
 [<ffffffff82cc838f>] dump_stack+0x12e/0x18f lib/dump_stack.c:51
 [<ffffffff8136d27f>] __warn+0x19f/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:516
 [<ffffffff8136d48c>] warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x40 kernel/panic.c:551
 [<ffffffff83283dae>] credit_entropy_bits+0x21e/0xad0 drivers/char/random.c:670
 [<     inline     >] credit_entropy_bits_safe drivers/char/random.c:734
 [<ffffffff8328785d>] random_ioctl+0x21d/0x250 drivers/char/random.c:1546
 [<     inline     >] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:43
 [<ffffffff8185316c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x18c/0xff0 fs/ioctl.c:674
 [<     inline     >] SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:689
 [<ffffffff8185405f>] SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:680
 [<ffffffff86a995c0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x23/0xc1
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:207
---[ end trace 5d4902b2ba842f1f ]---


// autogenerated by syzkaller (http://github.com/google/syzkaller)
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/random.h>

int main() {
        int fd = open("/dev/random", O_RDWR);
        int val = -5000;
        ioctl(fd, RNDADDTOENTCNT, &val);
        return 0;
}


On commit 67016f6cdfd079e632bbc49e33178b2d558c120a (Jun 20).