[PATCH 3.16 010/346] random: print a warning for the first ten uninitialized random users

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Nov 13 2016 - 23:04:42 EST


3.16.39-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

commit 9b4d008787f864f17d008c9c15bbe8a0f7e2fc24 upstream.

Since systemd is consistently using /dev/urandom before it is
initialized, we can't see the other potentially dangerous users of
/dev/urandom immediately after boot. So print the first ten such
complaints instead.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1379,12 +1379,16 @@ random_read(struct file *file, char __us
static ssize_t
urandom_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos)
{
+ static int maxwarn = 10;
int ret;

- if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0))
- printk_once(KERN_NOTICE "random: %s urandom read "
- "with %d bits of entropy available\n",
- current->comm, nonblocking_pool.entropy_total);
+ if (unlikely(nonblocking_pool.initialized == 0) &&
+ maxwarn > 0) {
+ maxwarn--;
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE "random: %s: uninitialized urandom read "
+ "(%zd bytes read, %d bits of entropy available)\n",
+ current->comm, nbytes, nonblocking_pool.entropy_total);
+ }

nbytes = min_t(size_t, nbytes, INT_MAX >> (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3));
ret = extract_entropy_user(&nonblocking_pool, buf, nbytes);