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author | Jason A. Donenfeld | 2022-02-07 23:37:13 +0100 |
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committer | Jason A. Donenfeld | 2022-02-21 21:14:00 +0100 |
commit | 434537ae54ad37e93555de21b6ac8133d6d773a9 (patch) | |
tree | 92138e44646e566972c8a9532cd900d136a12377 /drivers | |
parent | 04ec96b768c9dd43946b047c3da60dcc66431370 (diff) |
random: remove outdated INT_MAX >> 6 check in urandom_read()
In 79a8468747c5 ("random: check for increase of entropy_count because of
signed conversion"), a number of checks were added around what values
were passed to account(), because account() was doing fancy fixed point
fractional arithmetic, and a user had some ability to pass large values
directly into it. One of things in that commit was limiting those values
to INT_MAX >> 6. The first >> 3 was for bytes to bits, and the next >> 3
was for bits to 1/8 fractional bits.
However, for several years now, urandom reads no longer touch entropy
accounting, and so this check serves no purpose. The current flow is:
urandom_read_nowarn()-->get_random_bytes_user()-->chacha20_block()
Of course, we don't want that size_t to be truncated when adding it into
the ssize_t. But we arrive at urandom_read_nowarn() in the first place
either via ordinary fops, which limits reads to MAX_RW_COUNT, or via
getrandom() which limits reads to INT_MAX.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/random.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 768dee5e081a..896ec54f8f5c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1286,9 +1286,8 @@ void rand_initialize_disk(struct gendisk *disk) static ssize_t urandom_read_nowarn(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos) { - int ret; + ssize_t ret; - nbytes = min_t(size_t, nbytes, INT_MAX >> 6); ret = get_random_bytes_user(buf, nbytes); trace_urandom_read(nbytes, input_pool.entropy_count); return ret; |