linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 272/389] timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change

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Message-Id: <20220823080126.919788970@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:25:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 272/389] timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change

From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>

commit b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 upstream.

The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.

This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/audit.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #include "tick-internal.h"
 #include "ntp_internal.h"
@@ -1256,8 +1257,10 @@ out:
 	/* signal hrtimers about time change */
 	clock_was_set();
 
-	if (!ret)
+	if (!ret) {
 		audit_tk_injoffset(ts_delta);
+		add_device_randomness(ts, sizeof(*ts));
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2336,6 +2339,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *t
 	ret = timekeeping_validate_timex(txc);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
+	add_device_randomness(txc, sizeof(*txc));
 
 	if (txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) {
 		struct timespec64 delta;
@@ -2353,6 +2357,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *t
 	audit_ntp_init(&ad);
 
 	ktime_get_real_ts64(&ts);
+	add_device_randomness(&ts, sizeof(ts));
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
 	write_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq);