random: fix seeding with zero entropy

Add data from zero-entropy random_writes directly to output pools to
avoid accounting difficulties on machines without entropy sources.

Tested on lguest with all entropy sources disabled.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 9705b439448af5dc97d0378c229934e813b2ca31..0474cac4a84ed882e4bb92d825beb1afcb6db69f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1020,37 +1020,44 @@ random_poll(struct file *file, poll_table * wait)
        return mask;
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-random_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buffer,
-            size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+static int
+write_pool(struct entropy_store *r, const char __user *buffer, size_t count)
 {
-       int ret = 0;
        size_t bytes;
        __u32 buf[16];
        const char __user *p = buffer;
-       size_t c = count;
 
-       while (c > 0) {
-               bytes = min(c, sizeof(buf));
+       while (count > 0) {
+               bytes = min(count, sizeof(buf));
+               if (copy_from_user(&buf, p, bytes))
+                       return -EFAULT;
 
-               bytes -= copy_from_user(&buf, p, bytes);
-               if (!bytes) {
-                       ret = -EFAULT;
-                       break;
-               }
-               c -= bytes;
+               count -= bytes;
                p += bytes;
 
-               add_entropy_words(&input_pool, buf, (bytes + 3) / 4);
-       }
-       if (p == buffer) {
-               return (ssize_t)ret;
-       } else {
-               struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-               inode->i_mtime = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
-               mark_inode_dirty(inode);
-               return (ssize_t)(p - buffer);
+               add_entropy_words(r, buf, (bytes + 3) / 4);
        }
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+random_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buffer,
+            size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+       size_t ret;
+       struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+
+       ret = write_pool(&blocking_pool, buffer, count);
+       if (ret)
+               return ret;
+       ret = write_pool(&nonblocking_pool, buffer, count);
+       if (ret)
+               return ret;
+
+       inode->i_mtime = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
+       mark_inode_dirty(inode);
+       return (ssize_t)count;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -1089,8 +1096,8 @@ random_ioctl(struct inode * inode, struct file * file,
                        return -EINVAL;
                if (get_user(size, p++))
                        return -EFAULT;
-               retval = random_write(file, (const char __user *) p,
-                                     size, &file->f_pos);
+               retval = write_pool(&input_pool, (const char __user *)p,
+                                   size);
                if (retval < 0)
                        return retval;
                credit_entropy_store(&input_pool, ent_count);