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hwrng: core - Don't use a stack buffer in add_early_randomness()
authorAndrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:06:27 +0000 (10:06 -0700)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 03:20:21 +0000 (11:20 +0800)
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@mmlx.us>
Tested-by: Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>
Fixes: d3cc7996473a ("hwrng: fetch randomness only after device init")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
drivers/char/hw_random/core.c

index 482794526e8cd52418dc1c1e6e5b200943d3c4c8..d2d2c89de5b4428e627eb06d9733ec1bcf2c2b0d 100644 (file)
@@ -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)