linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4 v2] random: add rng-seed= command line option

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:40:59 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-team@...roid.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4 v2] random: add rng-seed= command line option

On 2/10/20 6:45 AM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> A followup to commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160
> ("fdt: add support for rng-seed") to extend what was started
> with Open Firmware (OF or Device Tree) parsing, but also add
> it to the command line.
> 
> If CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER is set, then feed the rng-seed
> command line option length as added trusted entropy.
> 
> Always erase view of the rng-seed option, except our early command
> line parsing, to prevent leakage to applications or modules, to
> eliminate any attack vector.
> 
> It is preferred to add rng-seed to the Device Tree, but some
> platforms do not have this option, so this adds the ability to
> provide some command-line-limited data to the entropy through this
> alternate mechanism.  Expect on average 6 bits of useful entropy
> per character.
> 

> ---
>  drivers/char/random.c  |  8 ++++
>  include/linux/random.h |  5 +++
>  init/main.c            | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)


> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 9f4ce0356057e..ad52f03fb8de4 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -524,6 +524,31 @@ static inline void smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int maxcpus) { }
>   * parsing is performed in place, and we should allow a component to
>   * store reference of name/value for future reference.
>   */
> +static const char rng_seed_str[] __initconst = "rng-seed=";
> +/* try to clear rng-seed so it won't be found by user applications. */
> +static void __init copy_command_line(char *dest, char *src, size_t r)
> +{

Please add this command line option to
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy