netdev - [PATCH 11/39] netfilter: nft_hash: get random bytes if seed is not specified

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Message-Id: <1479075933-4491-12-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>
Date:   Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:25:05 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/39] netfilter: nft_hash: get random bytes if seed is not specified

If the user doesn't specify a seed, generate one at configuration time.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_hash.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
index baf694de3935..97ad8e30e4b4 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 	if (!tb[NFTA_HASH_SREG] ||
 	    !tb[NFTA_HASH_DREG] ||
 	    !tb[NFTA_HASH_LEN]  ||
-	    !tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED] ||
 	    !tb[NFTA_HASH_MODULUS])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -80,7 +79,10 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 	if (priv->offset + priv->modulus - 1 < priv->offset)
 		return -EOVERFLOW;
 
-	priv->seed = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED]));
+	if (tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED])
+		priv->seed = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFTA_HASH_SEED]));
+	else
+		get_random_bytes(&priv->seed, sizeof(priv->seed));
 
 	return nft_validate_register_load(priv->sreg, len) &&
 	       nft_validate_register_store(ctx, priv->dreg, NULL,
-- 
2.1.4