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<title>random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement</title>
<updated>2014-05-19T05:53:57+00:00</updated>
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<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2013-11-11T11:20:32+00:00</published>
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For properly initialising the Tausworthe generator [1], we have
a strict seeding requirement, that is, s1 &gt; 1, s2 &gt; 7, s3 &gt; 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 &lt; 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 &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 51c37a70aaa3f95773af560e6db3073520513912 ]

For properly initialising the Tausworthe generator [1], we have
a strict seeding requirement, that is, s1 &gt; 1, s2 &gt; 7, s3 &gt; 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 &lt; 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 &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<title>random32: seeding improvement</title>
<updated>2008-07-30T23:29:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
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<published>2008-07-30T23:29:19+00:00</published>
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The rationale is:
   * use u32 consistently
   * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes
   * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding
   * don't reduce state space on srandom32()
   * enforce state variable initialization restrictions

Note: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period
and a version of random64() if needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The rationale is:
   * use u32 consistently
   * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes
   * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding
   * don't reduce state space on srandom32()
   * enforce state variable initialization restrictions

Note: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period
and a version of random64() if needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>[NET]: srandom32 fixes for networking v2</title>
<updated>2008-04-03T21:07:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@suse.de</email>
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<published>2008-04-03T21:07:02+00:00</published>
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- Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
So change it to feed bits into all CPUs.  I decided to do that lockless 
because well somewhat random results are ok.

v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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- Let it update the state of all CPUs. The network stack goes
into pains to feed the current IP addresses in, but it is not very
effective if that is only done for some random CPU instead of all.
So change it to feed bits into all CPUs.  I decided to do that lockless 
because well somewhat random results are ok.

v2: Drop rename so that this patch doesn't depend on x86 maintainers

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] severing module.h-&gt;sched.h</title>
<updated>2006-12-04T07:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2006-10-18T05:47:25+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] rename net_random to random32</title>
<updated>2006-10-17T15:18:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@osdl.org</email>
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<published>2006-10-17T07:09:42+00:00</published>
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Make net_random() more widely available by calling it random32

akpm: hopefully this will permit the removal of carta_random32.  That needs
confirmation from Stephane - this code looks somewhat more computationally
expensive, and has a different (ie: callee-stateful) interface.

[akpm@osdl.org: lots of build fixes, cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@hpl.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Make net_random() more widely available by calling it random32

akpm: hopefully this will permit the removal of carta_random32.  That needs
confirmation from Stephane - this code looks somewhat more computationally
expensive, and has a different (ie: callee-stateful) interface.

[akpm@osdl.org: lots of build fixes, cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@hpl.hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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