On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 20:30, Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
>
> The RNDRESEEDCRNG ioctl reseeds the primary_crng from itself, which
> doesn't make sense.  Reseed it from the input_pool instead.
>
> Fixes: d848e5f8e1eb ("random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG")
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org>

> ---
>
> Andrew, please consider taking this patch since the maintainer has been
> ignoring it for 4 months
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200916041908.66649-1-ebigg...@kernel.org/T/#u).
>
>
>  drivers/char/random.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
> index 5f3b8ac9d97b0..a894c0559a8cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/random.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/random.c
> @@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@ static long random_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int 
> cmd, unsigned long arg)
>                         return -EPERM;
>                 if (crng_init < 2)
>                         return -ENODATA;
> -               crng_reseed(&primary_crng, NULL);
> +               crng_reseed(&primary_crng, &input_pool);
>                 crng_global_init_time = jiffies - 1;
>                 return 0;
>         default:
> --
> 2.30.0
>

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