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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256381 12-Oct-2013 markm

Merge from project branch via main. Uninteresting commits are trimmed.

Refactor of /dev/random device. Main points include:

* Userland seeding is no longer used. This auto-seeds at boot time
on PC/Desktop setups; this may need some tweeking and intelligence
from those folks setting up embedded boxes, but the work is believed
to be minimal.

* An entropy cache is written to /entropy (even during installation)
and the kernel uses this at next boot.

* An entropy file written to /boot/entropy can be loaded by loader(8)

* Hardware sources such as rdrand are fed into Yarrow, and are no
longer available raw.

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r256240 | des | 2013-10-09 21:14:16 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 4 lines

Add a RANDOM_RWFILE option and hide the entropy cache code behind it.
Rename YARROW_RNG and FORTUNA_RNG to RANDOM_YARROW and RANDOM_FORTUNA.
Add the RANDOM_* options to LINT.

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r256239 | des | 2013-10-09 21:12:59 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Define RANDOM_PURE_RNDTEST for rndtest(4).

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r256204 | des | 2013-10-09 18:51:38 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

staticize struct random_hardware_source

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r256203 | markm | 2013-10-09 18:50:36 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Wrap some policy-rich code in 'if NOTYET' until we can thresh out
what it really needs to do.

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r256184 | des | 2013-10-09 10:13:12 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Re-add /dev/urandom for compatibility purposes.

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r256182 | des | 2013-10-09 10:11:14 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 3 lines

Add missing include guards and move the existing ones out of the
implementation namespace.

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r256168 | markm | 2013-10-08 23:14:07 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 10 lines

Fix some just-noticed problems:

o Allow this to work with "nodevice random" by fixing where the
MALLOC pool is defined.

o Fix the explicit reseed code. This was correct as submitted, but
in the project branch doesn't need to set the "seeded" bit as this
is done correctly in the "unblock" function.

o Remove some debug ifdeffing.

o Adjust comments.

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r256159 | markm | 2013-10-08 19:48:11 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 6 lines

Time to eat crow for me.

I replaced the sx_* locks that Arthur used with regular mutexes;
this turned out the be the wrong thing to do as the locks need to
be sleepable. Revert this folly.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (In original diff)

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r256138 | des | 2013-10-08 12:05:26 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 10 lines

Add YARROW_RNG and FORTUNA_RNG to sys/conf/options.

Add a SYSINIT that forces a reseed during proc0 setup, which happens
fairly late in the boot process.

Add a RANDOM_DEBUG option which enables some debugging printf()s.

Add a new RANDOM_ATTACH entropy source which harvests entropy from the
get_cyclecount() delta across each call to a device attach method.

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r256135 | markm | 2013-10-08 07:54:52 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 8 lines

Debugging. My attempt at EVENTHANDLER(multiuser) was a failure; use
EVENTHANDLER(mountroot) instead.

This means we can't count on /var being present, so something will
need to be done about harvesting /var/db/entropy/... .

Some policy now needs to be sorted out, and a pre-sync cache needs
to be written, but apart from that we are now ready to go.

Over to review.

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r256094 | markm | 2013-10-06 23:45:02 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 8 lines

Snapshot.

Looking pretty good; this mostly works now. New code includes:

* Read cached entropy at startup, both from files and from loader(8)
preloaded entropy. Failures are soft, but announced. Untested.

* Use EVENTHANDLER to do above just before we go multiuser. Untested.

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r256088 | markm | 2013-10-06 14:01:42 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Fix up the man page for random(4). This mainly removes no-longer-relevant
details about HW RNGs, reseeding explicitly and user-supplied
entropy.

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r256087 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:43:42 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 6 lines

As userland writing to /dev/random is no more, remove the "better
than nothing" bootstrap mode.

Add SWI harvesting to the mix.

My box seeds Yarrow by itself in a few seconds! YMMV; more to follow.

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r256086 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:40:32 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 11 lines

Debug run. This now works, except that the "live" sources haven't
been tested. With all sources turned on, this unlocks itself in
a couple of seconds! That is no my box, and there is no guarantee
that this will be the case everywhere.

* Cut debug prints.

* Use the same locks/mutexes all the way through.

* Be a tad more conservative about entropy estimates.

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r256084 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:35:29 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 5 lines

Don't use the "real" assembler mnemonics; older compilers may not
understand them (like when building CURRENT on 9.x).

# Submitted by: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>

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r256081 | markm | 2013-10-06 10:55:28 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 12 lines

SNAPSHOT.

Simplify the malloc pools; We only need one for this device.

Simplify the harvest queue.

Marginally improve the entropy pool hashing, making it a bit faster
in the process.

Connect up the hardware "live" source harvesting. This is simplistic
for now, and will need to be made rate-adaptive.

All of the above passes a compile test but needs to be debugged.

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r256042 | markm | 2013-10-04 07:55:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Oct 2013) | 25 lines

Snapshot. This passes the build test, but has not yet been finished or debugged.

Contains:

* Refactor the hardware RNG CPU instruction sources to feed into
the software mixer. This is unfinished. The actual harvesting needs
to be sorted out. Modified by me (see below).

* Remove 'frac' parameter from random_harvest(). This was never
used and adds extra code for no good reason.

* Remove device write entropy harvesting. This provided a weak
attack vector, was not very good at bootstrapping the device. To
follow will be a replacement explicit reseed knob.

* Separate out all the RANDOM_PURE sources into separate harvest
entities. This adds some secuity in the case where more than one
is present.

* Review all the code and fix anything obviously messy or inconsistent.
Address som review concerns while I'm here, like rename the pseudo-rng
to 'dummy'.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (the first item)

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r255319 | markm | 2013-09-06 18:51:52 +0100 (Fri, 06 Sep 2013) | 4 lines

Yarrow wants entropy estimations to be conservative; the usual idea
is that if you are certain you have N bits of entropy, you declare
N/2.

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r255075 | markm | 2013-08-30 18:47:53 +0100 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 4 lines

Remove short-lived idea; thread to harvest (eg) RDRAND enropy into the
usual harvest queues. It was a nifty idea, but too heavyweight.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>

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r255071 | markm | 2013-08-30 12:42:57 +0100 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 4 lines

Separate out the Software RNG entropy harvesting queue and thread
into its own files.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>

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r254934 | markm | 2013-08-26 20:07:03 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 2 lines

Remove the short-lived namei experiment.

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r254928 | markm | 2013-08-26 19:35:21 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 2 lines

Snapshot; Do some running repairs on entropy harvesting. More needs
to follow.

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r254927 | markm | 2013-08-26 19:29:51 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 15 lines

Snapshot of current work;

1) Clean up namespace; only use "Yarrow" where it is Yarrow-specific
or close enough to the Yarrow algorithm. For the rest use a neutral
name.

2) Tidy up headers; put private stuff in private places. More could
be done here.

3) Streamline the hashing/encryption; no need for a 256-bit counter;
128 bits will last for long enough.

There are bits of debug code lying around; these will be removed
at a later stage.

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r254784 | markm | 2013-08-24 14:54:56 +0100 (Sat, 24 Aug 2013) | 39 lines

1) example (partially humorous random_adaptor, that I call "EXAMPLE")
* It's not meant to be used in a real system, it's there to show how
the basics of how to create interfaces for random_adaptors. Perhaps
it should belong in a manual page

2) Move probe.c's functionality in to random_adaptors.c
* rename random_ident_hardware() to random_adaptor_choose()

3) Introduce a new way to choose (or select) random_adaptors via tunable
"rngs_want" It's a list of comma separated names of adaptors, ordered
by preferences. I.e.:
rngs_want="yarrow,rdrand"

Such setting would cause yarrow to be preferred to rdrand. If neither of
them are available (or registered), then system will default to
something reasonable (currently yarrow). If yarrow is not present, then
we fall back to the adaptor that's first on the list of registered
adaptors.

4) Introduce a way where RNGs can play a role of entropy source. This is
mostly useful for HW rngs.

The way I envision this is that every HW RNG will use this
functionality by default. Functionality to disable this is also present.
I have an example of how to use this in random_adaptor_example.c (see
modload event, and init function)

5) fix kern.random.adaptors from
kern.random.adaptors: yarrowpanicblock
to
kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,panic,block

6) add kern.random.active_adaptor to indicate currently selected
adaptor:
root@freebsd04:~ # sysctl kern.random.active_adaptor
kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>

Submitted by: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: des@FreeBSD.org
Approved by: re (delphij)
Approved by: secteam (des,delphij)


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 255362 07-Sep-2013 markm

Bring in some behind-the-scenes development, mainly By Arthur Mesh,
the rest by me.

o Namespace cleanup; the Yarrow name is now restricted to where it
really applies; this is in anticipation of being augmented or
replaced by Fortuna in the future. Fortuna is mentioned, but behind
#if logic, and is ignorable for now.

o The harvest queue is pulled out into its own modules.

o Entropy harvesting is emproved, both by being made more conservative,
and by separating (a bit!) the sources. Available entropy crumbs are
marginally improved.

o Selection of sources is made clearer. With recent revelations,
this will receive more work in the weeks and months to come.

Submitted by: Arthur Mesh (partly) <arthurmesh@gmail.com>


# 128059 09-Apr-2004 markm

Reorganise the entropy device so that high-yield entropy sources
can more easily be used INSTEAD OF the hard-working Yarrow.
The only hardware source used at this point is the one inside
the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU. More sources will
be added in due course. Contributions welcome!


# 89170 09-Jan-2002 msmith

Staticise the random_state array.

Reviewed by: markm


# 74072 10-Mar-2001 markm

Very large makeover of the /dev/random driver.

o Separate the kernel stuff from the Yarrow algorithm. Yarrow is now
well contained in one source file and one header.

o Replace the Blowfish-based crypto routines with Rijndael-based ones.
(Rijndael is the new AES algorithm). The huge improvement in
Rijndael's key-agility over Blowfish means that this is an
extremely dramatic improvement in speed, and makes a heck of
a difference in its (lack of) CPU load.

o Clean up the sysctl's. At BDE's prompting, I have gone back to
static sysctls.

o Bug fixes. The streamlining of the crypto stuff enabled me to
find and fix some bugs. DES also found a bug in the reseed routine
which is fixed.

o Change the way reseeds clear "used" entropy. Previously, only the
source(s) that caused a reseed were cleared. Now all sources in the
relevant pool(s) are cleared.

o Code tidy-up. Mostly to make it (nearly) 80-column compliant.


# 72364 11-Feb-2001 markm

Make a big improvement to entropy-harvesting speed by not having any
locks (only atomic assigns) in the harvest ringbuffer.


# 71037 14-Jan-2001 markm

Remove NOBLOCKRANDOM as a compile-time option. Instead, provide
exactly the same functionality via a sysctl, making this feature
a run-time option.

The default is 1(ON), which means that /dev/random device will
NOT block at startup.

setting kern.random.sys.seeded to 0(OFF) will cause /dev/random
to block until the next reseed, at which stage the sysctl
will be changed back to 1(ON).

While I'm here, clean up the sysctls, and make them dynamic.
Reviewed by: des
Tested on Alpha by: obrien


# 69526 02-Dec-2000 markm

Major speedup to /dev/random and the kernel thread that reseeds it.

There is no more TAILQ fifo to harvest the entropy; instead, there
is a circular buffer of constant size (changeable by macro) that
pretty dramatically improves the speed and fixes potential slowdowns-
by-locking.

Also gone are a slew of malloc(9) and free(9) calls; all harvesting
buffers are static.

All-in-all, this is a good performance improvement.

Thanks-to: msmith for the circular buffer concept-code.


# 69172 25-Nov-2000 markm

Greatly improve the boot-up unblocking time of the entropy device.


# 69170 25-Nov-2000 markm

More comment changing. Keep documentation in one place.


# 69169 25-Nov-2000 markm

Correct a comment. This represents a very minor policy change of my
intentions with this code.


# 69168 25-Nov-2000 markm

Stop explicitly using nanotime(9) and use the new get_cyclecounter(9)
call instead.

This makes a pretty dramatic difference to the amount of work that
the harvester needs to do - it is much friendlier on the system.
(80386 and 80486 class machines will notice little, as the new
get_cyclecounter() call is a wrapper round nanotime(9) for them).


# 67112 14-Oct-2000 markm

After some complaints about the dir names, the random device is
now in dirs called sys/*/random/ instead of sys/*/randomdev/*.

Introduce blocking, but only at startup; the random device will
block until the first reseed happens to prevent clients from
using untrustworthy output.

Provide a read_random() call for the rest of the kernel so that
the entropy device does not need to be present. This means that
things like IPX no longer need to have "device random" hardcoded
into thir kernel config. The downside is that read_random() will
provide very poor output until the entropy device is loaded and
reseeded. It is recommended that developers do NOT use the
read_random() call; instead, they should use arc4random() which
internally uses read_random().

Clean up the mutex and locking code a bit; this makes it possible
to unload the module again.


# 65752 11-Sep-2000 jhb

Move the prototypes for random_set_wakeup* from yarrow.c to yarrow.h so that
both yarrow.c and harvest.c can use them.

Approved by: markm


# 65686 10-Sep-2000 markm

Large upgrade to the entropy device; mainly inspired by feedback
from many folk.

o The reseed process is now a kthread. With SMPng, kthreads are
pre-emptive, so the annoying jerkiness of the mouse is gone.

o The data structures are protected by mutexes now, not splfoo()/splx().

o The cryptographic routines are broken out into their own subroutines.
this facilitates review, and possible replacement if that is ever
found necessary.

Thanks to: kris, green, peter, jasone, grog, jhb
Forgotten to thank: You know who you are; no offense intended.


# 63855 25-Jul-2000 markm

o Fix a horrible bug where small reads (< 8 bytes) would return the
wrong bytes.

o Improve the public interface; use void* instead of char* or u_int64_t
to pass arbitrary data around.
Submitted by: kris ("horrible bug")


# 63771 23-Jul-2000 markm

Clean this up with some BDE-inspired fixes.

o Make the comments KNF-compliant.
o Use nanotime instead of getnanotime; the manpage lies about the
kern.timecounter.method - it has been removed.
o Fix the ENTROPYSOURCE const permanently.
o Make variable names more consistent.
o Make function prototypes more consistent.

Some more needs to be done; to follow.


# 62841 09-Jul-2000 markm

Yarrow tweaks; separate the fast and slow reseed tasks so that they don't
stomp on each other; provide constant names (as enums) for the harvester
to use (makes it more self-documenting).


# 62765 07-Jul-2000 markm

Add entropy gathering code. This will work whether the module is
compiled in or loaded.


# 62053 25-Jun-2000 markm

New machine-independant /dev/random driver.

This is work-in-progress, and the entropy-gathering routines are not
yet present. As such, this should be viewed as a pretty reasonable
PRNG with _ABSOLUTELY_NO_ security!!

Entropy gathering will be the subject of ongoing work.

This is written as a module, and as such is unloadable, but there is
no refcounting done. I would like to use something like device_busy(9)
to achieve this (eventually).

Lots of useful ideas from: bde, phk, Jeroen van Gelderen

Reviewed by: dfr