From 775f4b297b780601e61787b766f306ed3e1d23eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 07:52:16 -0400 Subject: random: make 'add_interrupt_randomness()' do something sane We've been moving away from add_interrupt_randomness() for various reasons: it's too expensive to do on every interrupt, and flooding the CPU with interrupts could theoretically cause bogus floods of entropy from a somewhat externally controllable source. This solves both problems by limiting the actual randomness addition to just once a second or after 64 interrupts, whicever comes first. During that time, the interrupt cycle data is buffered up in a per-cpu pool. Also, we make sure the the nonblocking pool used by urandom is initialized before we start feeding the normal input pool. This assures that /dev/urandom is returning unpredictable data as soon as possible. (Based on an original patch by Linus, but significantly modified by tytso.) Tested-by: Eric Wustrow Reported-by: Eric Wustrow Reported-by: Nadia Heninger Reported-by: Zakir Durumeric Reported-by: J. Alex Halderman . Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/irq/handle.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c index bdb18032555..131ca176b49 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/handle.c +++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ irqreturn_t handle_irq_event_percpu(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action) { irqreturn_t retval = IRQ_NONE; - unsigned int random = 0, irq = desc->irq_data.irq; + unsigned int flags = 0, irq = desc->irq_data.irq; do { irqreturn_t res; @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ handle_irq_event_percpu(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action) /* Fall through to add to randomness */ case IRQ_HANDLED: - random |= action->flags; + flags |= action->flags; break; default: @@ -172,8 +172,7 @@ handle_irq_event_percpu(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action) action = action->next; } while (action); - if (random & IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM) - add_interrupt_randomness(irq); + add_interrupt_randomness(irq, flags); if (!noirqdebug) note_interrupt(irq, desc, retval); -- cgit v1.2.3