diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index ae38e4edcbd7..ab366f50cd9c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -534,19 +534,29 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes)
 	if (!nbytes)
 		return 0;
 
-	len = min_t(size_t, 32, nbytes);
-	crng_make_state(chacha_state, output, len);
+	/*
+	 * Immediately overwrite the ChaCha key at index 4 with random
+	 * bytes, in case userspace causes copy_to_user() below to sleep
+	 * forever, so that we still retain forward secrecy in that case.
+	 */
+	crng_make_state(chacha_state, (u8 *)&chacha_state[4], CHACHA_KEY_SIZE);
+	/*
+	 * However, if we're doing a read of len <= 32, we don't need to
+	 * use chacha_state after, so we can simply return those bytes to
+	 * the user directly.
+	 */
+	if (nbytes <= CHACHA_KEY_SIZE) {
+		ret = copy_to_user(buf, &chacha_state[4], nbytes) ? -EFAULT : nbytes;
+		goto out_zero_chacha;
+	}
 
-	if (copy_to_user(buf, output, len))
-		return -EFAULT;
-	nbytes -= len;
-	buf += len;
-	ret += len;
-
-	while (nbytes) {
+	do {
 		if (large_request && need_resched()) {
-			if (signal_pending(current))
+			if (signal_pending(current)) {
+				if (!ret)
+					ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
 				break;
+			}
 			schedule();
 		}
 
@@ -563,10 +573,11 @@ static ssize_t get_random_bytes_user(void __user *buf, size_t nbytes)
 		nbytes -= len;
 		buf += len;
 		ret += len;
-	}
+	} while (nbytes);
 
-	memzero_explicit(chacha_state, sizeof(chacha_state));
 	memzero_explicit(output, sizeof(output));
+out_zero_chacha:
+	memzero_explicit(chacha_state, sizeof(chacha_state));
 	return ret;
 }