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When a VM forks, we must immediately mix in additional information to the stream of random output so that two forks or a rollback don't produce the same stream of random numbers, which could have catastrophic cryptographic consequences. This commit adds a simple API, add_vmfork_ randomness(), for that, by force reseeding the crng. This has the added benefit of also draining the entropy pool and setting its timer back, so that any old entropy that was there prior -- which could have already been used by a different fork, or generally gone stale -- does not contribute to the accounting of the next 256 bits. Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.