From aa8463e7830a273ebc04ae78270c9e596b9d3b9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:53:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is potentially useful entropic data. This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to have. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index 8e4b3c32fcf9d..f72b9f1de178e 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "tick-internal.h" #include "ntp_internal.h" @@ -1343,8 +1344,10 @@ out: /* Signal hrtimers about time change */ clock_was_set(CLOCK_SET_WALL); - if (!ret) + if (!ret) { audit_tk_injoffset(ts_delta); + add_device_randomness(ts, sizeof(*ts)); + } return ret; } @@ -2430,6 +2433,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc) ret = timekeeping_validate_timex(txc); if (ret) return ret; + add_device_randomness(txc, sizeof(*txc)); if (txc->modes & ADJ_SETOFFSET) { struct timespec64 delta; @@ -2447,6 +2451,7 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct __kernel_timex *txc) audit_ntp_init(&ad); ktime_get_real_ts64(&ts); + add_device_randomness(&ts, sizeof(ts)); raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&timekeeper_lock, flags); write_seqcount_begin(&tk_core.seq); -- 2.39.5