[PATCH v2] gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Sun Apr 03 2022 - 16:41:50 EST


While the latent entropy plugin mostly doesn't derive entropy from
get_random_const() for measuring the call graph, when __latent_entropy is
applied to a constant, then it's initialized statically to output from
get_random_const(). In that case, this data is derived from a 64-bit
seed, which means a buffer of 512 bits doesn't really have that amount
of compile-time entropy.

This patch fixes that shortcoming by just buffering chunks of
/dev/urandom output and doling it out as requested.

At the same time, it's important that we don't break the use of
-frandom-seed, for people who want the runtime benefits of the latent
entropy plugin, while still having compile-time determinism. In that
case, we detect whether gcc's set_random_seed() has been called by
making a call to get_random_seed(noinit=true) in the plugin init
function, which is called after set_random_seed() is called but before
anything that calls get_random_seed(noinit=false), and seeing if it's
zero or not. If it's not zero, we're in deterministic mode, and so we
just generate numbers with a basic xorshift prng.

Fixes: 38addce8b600 ("gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes v1->v2:
- Pipacs pointed out that using /dev/urandom unconditionally would break
the use of -frandom-seed, so now we check for that and keep with
something deterministic in that case.

I'm not super familiar with this plugin or its conventions, so pointers
would be most welcome if something here looks amiss. The decision to
buffer 2k at a time is pretty arbitrary too; I haven't measured usage.

scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c | 48 +++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
index 589454bce930..042442013ae1 100644
--- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
+++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/latent_entropy_plugin.c
@@ -82,29 +82,37 @@ __visible int plugin_is_GPL_compatible;
static GTY(()) tree latent_entropy_decl;

static struct plugin_info latent_entropy_plugin_info = {
- .version = "201606141920vanilla",
+ .version = "202203311920vanilla",
.help = "disable\tturn off latent entropy instrumentation\n",
};

-static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT seed;
-/*
- * get_random_seed() (this is a GCC function) generates the seed.
- * This is a simple random generator without any cryptographic security because
- * the entropy doesn't come from here.
- */
+static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT deterministic_seed;
+static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT rnd_buf[256];
+static size_t rnd_idx = ARRAY_SIZE(rnd_buf);
+static int urandom_fd = -1;
+
static unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT get_random_const(void)
{
- unsigned int i;
- unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT ret = 0;
-
- for (i = 0; i < 8 * sizeof(ret); i++) {
- ret = (ret << 1) | (seed & 1);
- seed >>= 1;
- if (ret & 1)
- seed ^= 0xD800000000000000ULL;
+ if (deterministic_seed) {
+ unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT w = deterministic_seed;
+ w ^= w << 13;
+ w ^= w >> 7;
+ w ^= w << 17;
+ deterministic_seed = w;
+ return deterministic_seed;
}

- return ret;
+ if (urandom_fd < 0) {
+ urandom_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+ if (urandom_fd < 0)
+ abort();
+ }
+ if (rnd_idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(rnd_buf)) {
+ if (read(urandom_fd, rnd_buf, sizeof(rnd_buf)) != sizeof(rnd_buf))
+ abort();
+ rnd_idx = 0;
+ }
+ return rnd_buf[rnd_idx++];
}

static tree tree_get_random_const(tree type)
@@ -537,8 +545,6 @@ static void latent_entropy_start_unit(void *gcc_data __unused,
tree type, id;
int quals;

- seed = get_random_seed(false);
-
if (in_lto_p)
return;

@@ -573,6 +579,12 @@ __visible int plugin_init(struct plugin_name_args *plugin_info,
const struct plugin_argument * const argv = plugin_info->argv;
int i;

+ /*
+ * Call get_random_seed() with noinit=true, so that this returns
+ * 0 in the case where no seed has been passed via -frandom-seed.
+ */
+ deterministic_seed = get_random_seed(true);
+
static const struct ggc_root_tab gt_ggc_r_gt_latent_entropy[] = {
{
.base = &latent_entropy_decl,
--
2.35.1