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| author | Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> | 2013-11-11 12:20:32 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-11-11 14:32:14 -0500 |
| commit | 51c37a70aaa3f95773af560e6db3073520513912 (patch) | |
| tree | 00da845e9ecfa8ba58e618b9d472d81dc6ddfd41 /include/linux/random.h | |
| parent | 129596674c00352cbbb1efaf36db50726fd374ef (diff) | |
random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement
For properly initialising the Tausworthe generator [1], we have
a strict seeding requirement, that is, s1 > 1, s2 > 7, s3 > 15.
Commit 697f8d0348 ("random32: seeding improvement") introduced
a __seed() function that imposes boundary checks proposed by the
errata paper [2] to properly ensure above conditions.
However, we're off by one, as the function is implemented as:
"return (x < m) ? x + m : x;", and called with __seed(X, 1),
__seed(X, 7), __seed(X, 15). Thus, an unwanted seed of 1, 7, 15
would be possible, whereas the lower boundary should actually
be of at least 2, 8, 16, just as GSL does. Fix this, as otherwise
an initialization with an unwanted seed could have the effect
that Tausworthe's PRNG properties cannot not be ensured.
Note that this PRNG is *not* used for cryptography in the kernel.
[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme.ps
[2] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme2.ps
Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.
Fixes: 697f8d0348a6 ("random32: seeding improvement")
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/random.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/random.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h index 6312dd9ba449..bf9085e89fb5 100644 --- a/include/linux/random.h +++ b/include/linux/random.h @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ static inline void prandom_seed_state(struct rnd_state *state, u64 seed) { u32 i = (seed >> 32) ^ (seed << 10) ^ seed; - state->s1 = __seed(i, 1); - state->s2 = __seed(i, 7); - state->s3 = __seed(i, 15); + state->s1 = __seed(i, 2); + state->s2 = __seed(i, 8); + state->s3 = __seed(i, 16); } #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM |