[PATCH v8 6/7] random: early initialization of ChaCha constants

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Wed Dec 29 2021 - 16:14:04 EST


Previously, the ChaCha constants for the primary pool were only
initialized once rand_initialize() calls crng_initialize_primary().
However, some randomness is actually extracted from the primary pool
beforehand, e.g. by kmem_cache_create(). Therefore, statically
initialize the ChaCha constants for the primary pool.

In exchange, we can remove the dynamic initialization in
crng_initialize_primary(), as it is only called - as the name suggests -
for the primary pool. Therefore, no parameter to this function is needed.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/random.c | 10 +++++++---
include/crypto/chacha.h | 15 +++++++++++----
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 9b5eb6cf82ce..a5bf662578cb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -457,6 +457,10 @@ struct crng_state {

static struct crng_state primary_crng = {
.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(primary_crng.lock),
+ .state[0] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_EXPA, /* "expa" */
+ .state[1] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_ND_3, /* "nd 3" */
+ .state[2] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_2_BY, /* "2-by" */
+ .state[3] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_TE_K, /* "te k" */
};

/*
@@ -823,9 +827,9 @@ static void __maybe_unused crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng)
crng->init_time = jiffies - CRNG_RESEED_INTERVAL - 1;
}

-static void __init crng_initialize_primary(struct crng_state *crng)
+static void __init crng_initialize_primary(void)
{
- chacha_init_consts(crng->state);
+ struct crng_state *crng = &primary_crng;
_extract_entropy(&input_pool, &crng->state[4], sizeof(__u32) * 12, 0);
if (crng_init_try_arch_early(crng) && trust_cpu && crng_init < 2) {
invalidate_batched_entropy();
@@ -1797,7 +1801,7 @@ int __init rand_initialize(void)
init_std_data(&input_pool);
if (crng_need_final_init)
crng_finalize_init(&primary_crng);
- crng_initialize_primary(&primary_crng);
+ crng_initialize_primary();
crng_global_init_time = jiffies;
if (ratelimit_disable) {
urandom_warning.interval = 0;
diff --git a/include/crypto/chacha.h b/include/crypto/chacha.h
index dabaee698718..147e56fc755e 100644
--- a/include/crypto/chacha.h
+++ b/include/crypto/chacha.h
@@ -47,12 +47,19 @@ static inline void hchacha_block(const u32 *state, u32 *out, int nrounds)
hchacha_block_generic(state, out, nrounds);
}

+enum chacha_constants { /* expand 32-byte k */
+ CHACHA_CONSTANT_EXPA = 0x61707865U,
+ CHACHA_CONSTANT_ND_3 = 0x3320646eU,
+ CHACHA_CONSTANT_2_BY = 0x79622d32U,
+ CHACHA_CONSTANT_TE_K = 0x6b206574U
+};
+
static inline void chacha_init_consts(u32 *state)
{
- state[0] = 0x61707865; /* "expa" */
- state[1] = 0x3320646e; /* "nd 3" */
- state[2] = 0x79622d32; /* "2-by" */
- state[3] = 0x6b206574; /* "te k" */
+ state[0] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_EXPA; /* "expa" */
+ state[1] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_ND_3; /* "nd 3" */
+ state[2] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_2_BY; /* "2-by" */
+ state[3] = CHACHA_CONSTANT_TE_K; /* "te k" */
}

void chacha_init_arch(u32 *state, const u32 *key, const u8 *iv);
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