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From: George Spelvin <lkml@SDF•ORG>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt•eu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>, Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail•com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4•com>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel•org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit•edu>,
	Marc Plumb <lkml.mplumb@gmail•com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
	George Spelvin <lkml@SDF•ORG>
Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH] random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 05:26:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200811052649.GG25124@SDF.ORG> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200810210455.GA9194@1wt.eu>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:04:55PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> What could be improved is the way the input values are mixed (just
> added hence commutative for now). I didn't want to call a siphash
> round on the hot paths, but just shifting the previous noise value
> before adding would work, such as the following for example:
> 
>   void prandom_u32_add_noise(a, b, c, d)
>   {
>   	unsigned long *noise = get_cpu_ptr(&net_rand_noise);
> 
>   #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> 	*noise = rol64(*noise, 7) + a + b + c + d;
>   #else
> 	*noise = rol32(*noise, 7) + a + b + c + d;
>   #endif
>   	put_cpu_ptr(&net_rand_noise);
> 
>   }

If you think this is enough seed material, I'm fine with it.

I don't hugely like the fact that you sum all the inputs, since
entropy tends to be concentrated in the low-order words, and summing
risks cancellation.

You can't afford even one SIPROUND as a non-cryptographic hash?  E.g.

DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long[4], net_rand_noise);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_rand_noise);

void prandom_u32_add_noise(a, b, c, d)
{
	unsigned long *noise = get_cpu_ptr(&net_rand_noise);

	a ^= noise[0];
	b ^= noise[1];
	c ^= noise[2];
	d ^= noise[3];
	/*
	 * This is not used cryptographically; it's just
	 * a convenient 4-word hash function.
	 */
	SIPROUND(a, b, c, d);
	noise[0] = a;
	noise[1] = b;
	noise[2] = c;
	put_cpu_ptr(&net_rand_noise);
}

(And then you mix in net_rand_noise[0].)

Other options are HASH_MIX() from fs/namei.c, but that's
more sequential.

There's also a simple Xorshift generator.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-11  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-08 15:26 Flaw in "random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity" George Spelvin
2020-08-08 17:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-08 18:08   ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-08 18:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-08 19:03   ` George Spelvin
2020-08-08 19:49     ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-08 21:29       ` George Spelvin
2020-08-08 17:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-08 18:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-08 18:53     ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-08 20:47     ` George Spelvin
2020-08-08 20:52       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-08 22:27         ` George Spelvin
2020-08-09  2:07           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-11 16:01             ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-08 19:18   ` Florian Westphal
2020-08-08 20:59     ` George Spelvin
2020-08-08 21:18     ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-08 20:08   ` George Spelvin
2020-08-08 20:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-09  6:57 ` [DRAFT PATCH] random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable George Spelvin
2020-08-09  9:38   ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-09 17:06     ` George Spelvin
2020-08-09 17:33       ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-09 18:30         ` George Spelvin
2020-08-09 19:16           ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-10 11:47           ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-10 12:01             ` David Laight
2020-08-10 14:48               ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-10 12:03             ` Florian Westphal
2020-08-10 14:53               ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-10 16:31             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-10 16:58               ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-10 17:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-10 18:01                   ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-10 21:04                   ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-11  5:26                     ` George Spelvin [this message]
2020-08-11  5:37                       ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-11  3:47             ` George Spelvin
2020-08-11  3:58               ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found]     ` <fdbc7d7d-cba2-ef94-9bde-b3ccae0cfaac@gmail.com>
2020-08-09 21:10       ` Marc Plumb
2020-08-09 21:48         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-09 13:50   ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found]   ` <CANEQ_++a4YcwQQ2XhuguTono9=RxbSRVsMw08zLWBWJ_wxG2AQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-09 16:08     ` George Spelvin
     [not found] <CA+icZUVnsmf1kXPYFYufStQ_MxnLuxL+EWfDS2wQy1VbAEMwkA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-09 21:10 ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found] ` <20200809235412.GD25124@SDF.ORG>
     [not found]   ` <20200810034948.GB8262@1wt.eu>
     [not found]     ` <20200811053455.GH25124@SDF.ORG>
     [not found]       ` <20200811054328.GD9456@1wt.eu>
     [not found]         ` <20200811062814.GI25124@SDF.ORG>
     [not found]           ` <20200811074538.GA9523@1wt.eu>
2020-08-11 10:51             ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-11 11:01               ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-12  3:21               ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-13  7:53                 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-13  8:06                   ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-13  8:13                     ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-13  8:27                       ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-13 14:00                         ` Eric Dumazet
2020-08-13 16:02                           ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-14 15:32                     ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-14 16:05                       ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-14 16:17                         ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-16 15:01                           ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-16 16:48                             ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-20  3:05                               ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-20  4:33                                 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-20  4:42                                   ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-20  6:08                                     ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-20  6:58                                       ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-20  8:05                                         ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-20 12:08                                           ` Sedat Dilek
     [not found]                                           ` <CANEQ_+L+22Hkdqf38Zr0bfq16fcL1Ax2X9fToXV_niHKXCB8aA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-27  1:09                                             ` Willy Tarreau
2020-08-27  7:08                                               ` Sedat Dilek

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