[PATCH resend 4.9] hw_random: Don't use a stack buffer in add_early_randomness()

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 13:06:55 EST


hw_random carefully avoids using a stack buffer except in
add_early_randomness(). This causes a crash in virtio_rng if
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y.

Reported-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: d3cc7996473a ("hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

This fixes a crash in 4.9-rc1.

resending because I typoed the git send-email command. I stealthily added
Matt's Tested-by, too.

drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 9203f2d130c0..340f96e44642 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -84,14 +84,14 @@ static size_t rng_buffer_size(void)

static void add_early_randomness(struct hwrng *rng)
{
- unsigned char bytes[16];
int bytes_read;
+ size_t size = min_t(size_t, 16, rng_buffer_size());

mutex_lock(&reading_mutex);
- bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, bytes, sizeof(bytes), 1);
+ bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 1);
mutex_unlock(&reading_mutex);
if (bytes_read > 0)
- add_device_randomness(bytes, bytes_read);
+ add_device_randomness(rng_buffer, bytes_read);
}

static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref)
--
2.7.4