From cd4f24ae9404fd31fc461066e57889be3b68641b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 16:14:00 +0200 Subject: random: restore O_NONBLOCK support Prior to 5.6, when /dev/random was opened with O_NONBLOCK, it would return -EAGAIN if there was no entropy. When the pools were unified in 5.6, this was lost. The post 5.6 behavior of blocking until the pool is initialized, and ignoring O_NONBLOCK in the process, went unnoticed, with no reports about the regression received for two and a half years. However, eventually this indeed did break somebody's userspace. So we restore the old behavior, by returning -EAGAIN if the pool is not initialized. Unlike the old /dev/random, this can only occur during early boot, after which it never blocks again. In order to make this O_NONBLOCK behavior consistent with other expectations, also respect users reading with preadv2(RWF_NOWAIT) and similar. Fixes: 30c08efec888 ("random: make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom") Reported-by: Guozihua Reported-by: Zhongguohua Cc: Al Viro Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Andrew Lutomirski Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- drivers/char/random.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/char/random.c') diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c index 79d7d4e4e582..c8cc23515568 100644 --- a/drivers/char/random.c +++ b/drivers/char/random.c @@ -1347,6 +1347,11 @@ static ssize_t random_read_iter(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { int ret; + if (!crng_ready() && + ((kiocb->ki_flags & (IOCB_NOWAIT | IOCB_NOIO)) || + (kiocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK))) + return -EAGAIN; + ret = wait_for_random_bytes(); if (ret != 0) return ret; -- cgit v1.2.3