I introduced an obvious compiler error in r346282, so this change fixes
that.
Unfortunately, RANDOM_LOADABLE isn't covered by our existing tinderbox, and
it seems like there were existing latent linking problems. I believe these
were introduced on accident in r338324 during reduction of the boolean
expression(s) adjacent to randomdev.c and hash.c. It seems the
RANDOM_LOADABLE build breakage has gone unnoticed for nine months.
This change correctly annotates randomdev.c and hash.c with !random_loadable
to match the pre-r338324 logic; and additionally updates the HWRNG drivers
in MD 'files.*', which depend on random_device symbols, with
!random_loadable (it is invalid for the kernel to depend on symbols from a
module).
(The expression for both randomdev.c and hash.c was the same, prior to
r338324: "optional random random_yarrow | random !random_yarrow
!random_loadable". I.e., "random && (yarrow || !loadable)." When Yarrow
was removed ("yarrow := False"), the expression was incorrectly reduced to
"optional random" when it should have retained "random && !loadable".)
Additionally, I discovered that virtio_random was missing a MODULE_DEPEND on
random_device, which breaks kld load/link of the driver on RANDOM_LOADABLE
kernels. Address that issue as well.
PR: 238223
Reported by: Eir Nym <eirnym AT gmail.com>
Reviewed by: delphij, markm
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20466
As discussed in that commit message, it is a dangerous default. But the
safe default causes enough pain on a variety of platforms that for now,
restore the prior default.
Some of this is self-induced pain we should/could do better about; for
example, programmatic CI systems and VM managers should introduce entropy
from the host for individual VM instances. This is considered a future work
item.
On modern x86 and Power9 systems, this may be wholly unnecessary after
D19928 lands (even in the non-ideal case where early /boot/entropy is
unavailable), because they have fast hardware random sources available early
in boot. But D19928 is not yet landed and we have a host of architectures
which do not provide fast random sources.
This change adds several tunables and diagnostic sysctls, documented
thoroughly in UPDATING and sys/dev/random/random_infra.c.
PR: 230875 (reopens)
Reported by: adrian, jhb, imp, and probably others
Reviewed by: delphij, imp (earlier version), markm (earlier version)
Discussed with: adrian
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Relnotes: yeah
Security: related
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19944
The imagined use is for early boot consumers of random to be able to make
decisions based on whether random is available yet or not. One such
consumer seems to be __stack_chk_init(), which runs immediately after random
is initialized. A follow-up patch will attempt to address that.
Reported by: many
Reviewed by: delphij (except man page)
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19926
read_random() is/was used, mostly without error checking, in a lot of
very sensitive places in the kernel -- including seeding the widely used
arc4random(9).
Most uses, especially arc4random(9), should block until the device is seeded
rather than proceeding with a bogus or empty seed. I did not spy any
obvious kernel consumers where blocking would be inappropriate (in the
sense that lack of entropy would be ok -- I did not investigate locking
angle thoroughly). In many instances, arc4random_buf(9) or that family
of APIs would be more appropriate anyway; that work was done in r345865.
A minor cleanup was made to the implementation of the READ_RANDOM function:
instead of using a variable-length array on the stack to temporarily store
all full random blocks sufficient to satisfy the requested 'len', only store
a single block on the stack. This has some benefit in terms of reducing
stack usage, reducing memcpy overhead and reducing devrandom output leakage
via the stack. Additionally, the stack block is now safely zeroed if it was
used.
One caveat of this change is that the kern.arandom sysctl no longer returns
zero bytes immediately if the random device is not seeded. This means that
FreeBSD-specific userspace applications which attempted to handle an
unseeded random device may be broken by this change. If such behavior is
needed, it can be replaced by the more portable getrandom(2) GRND_NONBLOCK
option.
On any typical FreeBSD system, entropy is persisted on read/write media and
used to seed the random device very early in boot, and blocking is never a
problem.
This change primarily impacts the behavior of /dev/random on embedded
systems with read-only media that do not configure "nodevice random". We
toggle the default from 'charge on blindly with no entropy' to 'block
indefinitely.' This default is safer, but may cause frustration. Embedded
system designers using FreeBSD have several options. The most obvious is to
plan to have a small writable NVRAM or NAND to persist entropy, like larger
systems. Early entropy can be fed from any loader, or by writing directly
to /dev/random during boot. Some embedded SoCs now provide a fast hardware
entropy source; this would also work for quickly seeding Fortuna. A 3rd
option would be creating an embedded-specific, more simplistic random
module, like that designed by DJB in [1] (this design still requires a small
rewritable media for forward secrecy). Finally, the least preferred option
might be "nodevice random", although I plan to remove this in a subsequent
revision.
To help developers emulate the behavior of these embedded systems on
ordinary workstations, the tunable kern.random.block_seeded_status was
added. When set to 1, it blocks the random device.
I attempted to document this change in random.4 and random.9 and ran into a
bunch of out-of-date or irrelevant or inaccurate content and ended up
rototilling those documents more than I intended to. Sorry. I think
they're in a better state now.
PR: 230875
Reviewed by: delphij, markm (earlier version)
Approved by: secteam(delphij), devrandom(markm)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19744
if desired.
Retire randomdev_none.c and introduce random_infra.c for resident
infrastructure. Completely stub out random(4) calls in the "without
DEV_RANDOM" case.
Add RANDOM_LOADABLE option to allow loadable Yarrow/Fortuna/LocallyWritten
algorithm. Add a skeleton "other" algorithm framework for folks
to add their own processing code. NIST, anyone?
Retire the RANDOM_DUMMY option.
Build modules for Yarrow, Fortuna and "other".
Use atomics for the live entropy rate-tracking.
Convert ints to bools for the 'seeded' logic.
Move _write() function from the algorithm-specific areas to randomdev.c
Get rid of reseed() function - it is unused.
Tidy up the opt_*.h includes.
Update documentation for random(4) modules.
Fix test program (reviewers, please leave this).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3354
Reviewed by: wblock,delphij,jmg,bjk
Approved by: so (/dev/random blanket)
