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Linus Torvalds 91f28da8c9 random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 
This is the cleanup of the latest series of prandom_u32 experimentations
 consisting in using SipHash instead of Tausworthe to produce the randoms
 used by the network stack. The changes to the files were kept minimal,
 and the controversial commit that used to take noise from the fast_pool
 (f227e3ec3b) was reverted. Instead, a dedicated "net_rand_noise" per_cpu
 variable is fed from various sources of activities (networking, scheduling)
 to perturb the SipHash state using fast, non-trivially predictable data,
 instead of keeping it fully deterministic. The goal is essentially to make
 any occasional memory leakage or brute-force attempt useless.
 
 The resulting code was verified to be very slightly faster on x86_64 than
 what is was with the controversial commit above, though this remains barely
 above measurement noise. It was also tested on i386 and arm, and build-
 tested only on arm64.
 
 The whole discussion around this is archived here:
   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/
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Merge tag '20201024-v4-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/prandom

Pull random32 updates from Willy Tarreau:
 "Make prandom_u32() less predictable.

  This is the cleanup of the latest series of prandom_u32
  experimentations consisting in using SipHash instead of Tausworthe to
  produce the randoms used by the network stack.

  The changes to the files were kept minimal, and the controversial
  commit that used to take noise from the fast_pool (f227e3ec3b) was
  reverted. Instead, a dedicated "net_rand_noise" per_cpu variable is
  fed from various sources of activities (networking, scheduling) to
  perturb the SipHash state using fast, non-trivially predictable data,
  instead of keeping it fully deterministic. The goal is essentially to
  make any occasional memory leakage or brute-force attempt useless.

  The resulting code was verified to be very slightly faster on x86_64
  than what is was with the controversial commit above, though this
  remains barely above measurement noise. It was also tested on i386 and
  arm, and build- tested only on arm64"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/

* tag '20201024-v4-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wtarreau/prandom:
  random32: add a selftest for the prandom32 code
  random32: add noise from network and scheduling activity
  random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable
2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
arch dma-mapping fixes for 5.10: 2020-10-24 12:17:05 -07:00
block block-5.10-2020-10-24 2020-10-24 12:46:42 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation block-5.10-2020-10-24 2020-10-24 12:46:42 -07:00
drivers random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
fs io_uring-5.10-2020-10-24 2020-10-24 12:40:18 -07:00
include random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
init linux-kselftest-kunit-5.10-rc1 2020-10-18 14:45:59 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
lib random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm Refactored code for 5.10: 2020-10-23 11:33:41 -07:00
net random32: add noise from network and scheduling activity 2020-10-24 20:21:57 +02:00
samples bpf, libbpf: Guard bpf inline asm from bpf_tail_call_static 2020-10-22 01:46:52 +02:00
scripts Fixes for 5.10-rc1 from the networking tree: 2020-10-23 12:05:49 -07:00
security task_work: cleanup notification modes 2020-10-17 15:05:30 -06:00
sound ARM: SoC platform updates 2020-10-24 10:33:08 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-10-24 12:26:05 -07:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU 2020-10-23 03:42:13 -04:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com -> jarkko@kernel.org 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: Devicetree updates 2020-10-24 10:44:18 -07:00
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