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# 3b8f0845 28-Apr-2014 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org>

Merge head


# 84e51a1b 23-Apr-2014 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @264767


# 485ac45a 04-Feb-2014 Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org>

MFC @ r259205 in preparation for some SVM updates. (for real this time)


Revision tags: release/10.0.0
# 0bfd163f 18-Oct-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Merge head r233826 through r256722.


# 0e325afd 12-Oct-2013 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

MFC - tracking commit


# cc4d059c 12-Oct-2013 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Merge from project branch. Uninteresting commits are trimmed.

Refactor of /dev/random device. Main points include:

* Userland seeding is no longer used. This auto-seeds at boot time
on PC/Desktop s

Merge from project branch. Uninteresting commits are trimmed.

Refactor of /dev/random device. Main points include:

* Userland seeding is no longer used. This auto-seeds at boot time
on PC/Desktop setups; this may need some tweeking and intelligence
from those folks setting up embedded boxes, but the work is believed
to be minimal.

* An entropy cache is written to /entropy (even during installation)
and the kernel uses this at next boot.

* An entropy file written to /boot/entropy can be loaded by loader(8)

* Hardware sources such as rdrand are fed into Yarrow, and are no
longer available raw.

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r256240 | des | 2013-10-09 21:14:16 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 4 lines

Add a RANDOM_RWFILE option and hide the entropy cache code behind it.
Rename YARROW_RNG and FORTUNA_RNG to RANDOM_YARROW and RANDOM_FORTUNA.
Add the RANDOM_* options to LINT.

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r256239 | des | 2013-10-09 21:12:59 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Define RANDOM_PURE_RNDTEST for rndtest(4).

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r256204 | des | 2013-10-09 18:51:38 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

staticize struct random_hardware_source

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r256203 | markm | 2013-10-09 18:50:36 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Wrap some policy-rich code in 'if NOTYET' until we can thresh out
what it really needs to do.

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r256184 | des | 2013-10-09 10:13:12 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Re-add /dev/urandom for compatibility purposes.

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r256182 | des | 2013-10-09 10:11:14 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 3 lines

Add missing include guards and move the existing ones out of the
implementation namespace.

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r256168 | markm | 2013-10-08 23:14:07 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 10 lines

Fix some just-noticed problems:

o Allow this to work with "nodevice random" by fixing where the
MALLOC pool is defined.

o Fix the explicit reseed code. This was correct as submitted, but
in the project branch doesn't need to set the "seeded" bit as this
is done correctly in the "unblock" function.

o Remove some debug ifdeffing.

o Adjust comments.

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r256159 | markm | 2013-10-08 19:48:11 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 6 lines

Time to eat crow for me.

I replaced the sx_* locks that Arthur used with regular mutexes;
this turned out the be the wrong thing to do as the locks need to
be sleepable. Revert this folly.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (In original diff)

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r256138 | des | 2013-10-08 12:05:26 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 10 lines

Add YARROW_RNG and FORTUNA_RNG to sys/conf/options.

Add a SYSINIT that forces a reseed during proc0 setup, which happens
fairly late in the boot process.

Add a RANDOM_DEBUG option which enables some debugging printf()s.

Add a new RANDOM_ATTACH entropy source which harvests entropy from the
get_cyclecount() delta across each call to a device attach method.

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r256135 | markm | 2013-10-08 07:54:52 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 8 lines

Debugging. My attempt at EVENTHANDLER(multiuser) was a failure; use
EVENTHANDLER(mountroot) instead.

This means we can't count on /var being present, so something will
need to be done about harvesting /var/db/entropy/... .

Some policy now needs to be sorted out, and a pre-sync cache needs
to be written, but apart from that we are now ready to go.

Over to review.

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r256094 | markm | 2013-10-06 23:45:02 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 8 lines

Snapshot.

Looking pretty good; this mostly works now. New code includes:

* Read cached entropy at startup, both from files and from loader(8)
preloaded entropy. Failures are soft, but announced. Untested.

* Use EVENTHANDLER to do above just before we go multiuser. Untested.

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r256088 | markm | 2013-10-06 14:01:42 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 2 lines

Fix up the man page for random(4). This mainly removes no-longer-relevant
details about HW RNGs, reseeding explicitly and user-supplied
entropy.

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r256087 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:43:42 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 6 lines

As userland writing to /dev/random is no more, remove the "better
than nothing" bootstrap mode.

Add SWI harvesting to the mix.

My box seeds Yarrow by itself in a few seconds! YMMV; more to follow.

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r256086 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:40:32 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 11 lines

Debug run. This now works, except that the "live" sources haven't
been tested. With all sources turned on, this unlocks itself in
a couple of seconds! That is no my box, and there is no guarantee
that this will be the case everywhere.

* Cut debug prints.

* Use the same locks/mutexes all the way through.

* Be a tad more conservative about entropy estimates.

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r256084 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:35:29 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 5 lines

Don't use the "real" assembler mnemonics; older compilers may not
understand them (like when building CURRENT on 9.x).

# Submitted by: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>

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r256081 | markm | 2013-10-06 10:55:28 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 12 lines

SNAPSHOT.

Simplify the malloc pools; We only need one for this device.

Simplify the harvest queue.

Marginally improve the entropy pool hashing, making it a bit faster
in the process.

Connect up the hardware "live" source harvesting. This is simplistic
for now, and will need to be made rate-adaptive.

All of the above passes a compile test but needs to be debugged.

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r256042 | markm | 2013-10-04 07:55:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Oct 2013) | 25 lines

Snapshot. This passes the build test, but has not yet been finished or debugged.

Contains:

* Refactor the hardware RNG CPU instruction sources to feed into
the software mixer. This is unfinished. The actual harvesting needs
to be sorted out. Modified by me (see below).

* Remove 'frac' parameter from random_harvest(). This was never
used and adds extra code for no good reason.

* Remove device write entropy harvesting. This provided a weak
attack vector, was not very good at bootstrapping the device. To
follow will be a replacement explicit reseed knob.

* Separate out all the RANDOM_PURE sources into separate harvest
entities. This adds some secuity in the case where more than one
is present.

* Review all the code and fix anything obviously messy or inconsistent.
Address som review concerns while I'm here, like rename the pseudo-rng
to 'dummy'.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (the first item)

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r255319 | markm | 2013-09-06 18:51:52 +0100 (Fri, 06 Sep 2013) | 4 lines

Yarrow wants entropy estimations to be conservative; the usual idea
is that if you are certain you have N bits of entropy, you declare
N/2.

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r255075 | markm | 2013-08-30 18:47:53 +0100 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 4 lines

Remove short-lived idea; thread to harvest (eg) RDRAND enropy into the
usual harvest queues. It was a nifty idea, but too heavyweight.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>

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r255071 | markm | 2013-08-30 12:42:57 +0100 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 4 lines

Separate out the Software RNG entropy harvesting queue and thread
into its own files.

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>

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r254934 | markm | 2013-08-26 20:07:03 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 2 lines

Remove the short-lived namei experiment.

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r254928 | markm | 2013-08-26 19:35:21 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 2 lines

Snapshot; Do some running repairs on entropy harvesting. More needs
to follow.

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r254927 | markm | 2013-08-26 19:29:51 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 15 lines

Snapshot of current work;

1) Clean up namespace; only use "Yarrow" where it is Yarrow-specific
or close enough to the Yarrow algorithm. For the rest use a neutral
name.

2) Tidy up headers; put private stuff in private places. More could
be done here.

3) Streamline the hashing/encryption; no need for a 256-bit counter;
128 bits will last for long enough.

There are bits of debug code lying around; these will be removed
at a later stage.

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r254784 | markm | 2013-08-24 14:54:56 +0100 (Sat, 24 Aug 2013) | 39 lines

1) example (partially humorous random_adaptor, that I call "EXAMPLE")
* It's not meant to be used in a real system, it's there to show how
the basics of how to create interfaces for random_adaptors. Perhaps
it should belong in a manual page

2) Move probe.c's functionality in to random_adaptors.c
* rename random_ident_hardware() to random_adaptor_choose()

3) Introduce a new way to choose (or select) random_adaptors via tunable
"rngs_want" It's a list of comma separated names of adaptors, ordered
by preferences. I.e.:
rngs_want="yarrow,rdrand"

Such setting would cause yarrow to be preferred to rdrand. If neither of
them are available (or registered), then system will default to
something reasonable (currently yarrow). If yarrow is not present, then
we fall back to the adaptor that's first on the list of registered
adaptors.

4) Introduce a way where RNGs can play a role of entropy source. This is
mostly useful for HW rngs.

The way I envision this is that every HW RNG will use this
functionality by default. Functionality to disable this is also present.
I have an example of how to use this in random_adaptor_example.c (see
modload event, and init function)

5) fix kern.random.adaptors from
kern.random.adaptors: yarrowpanicblock
to
kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,panic,block

6) add kern.random.active_adaptor to indicate currently selected
adaptor:
root@freebsd04:~ # sysctl kern.random.active_adaptor
kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow

# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>

Submitted by: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: des@FreeBSD.org
Approved by: re (delphij)
Approved by: secteam (des,delphij)

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# 1ccca3b5 10-Oct-2013 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @256277

Approved by: ken (mentor)


# 1f25c4ec 06-Oct-2013 Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>

Fix up the man page for random(4). This mainly removes no-longer-relevant details about HW RNGs, reseeding explicitly and user-supplied entropy.


Revision tags: release/9.2.0
# ef90af83 20-Sep-2013 Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @ r255692

Comment out IA32_MISC_ENABLE MSR access - this doesn't exist on AMD.
Need to sort out how arch-specific MSRs will be handled.


# d1d01586 05-Sep-2013 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org>

Merge from head


# 46ed9e49 04-Sep-2013 Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @ r255209


# 5711939b 09-Aug-2013 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

* Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's.
random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4).
random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) ve

* Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's.
random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4).
random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) very early in bootup.
Unplugging random_adaptor from random(4) is not supported, and is probably a
bad idea anyway, due to potential loss of entropy pools.
We currently have 3 random_adaptors:
+ yarrow
+ rdrand (ivy.c)
+ nehemeiah

* Remove platform dependent logic from probe.c, and move it into
corresponding registration routines of each random_adaptor provider.
probe.c doesn't do anything other than picking a specific random_adaptor
from a list of registered ones.

* If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present then the
creation of /dev/random is postponed until next random_adaptor is kldload'ed.

* Fix randomdev_soft.c to refer to its own random_adaptor, instead of a
system wide one.

Submitted by: arthurmesh@gmail.com, obrien
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: so (des)

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# 0e6a0799 31-Jul-2013 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Back out r253779 & r253786.


# 99ff83da 29-Jul-2013 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Decouple yarrow from random(4) device.

* Make Yarrow an optional kernel component -- enabled by "YARROW_RNG" option.
The files sha2.c, hash.c, randomdev_soft.c and yarrow.c comprise yarrow.

* ran

Decouple yarrow from random(4) device.

* Make Yarrow an optional kernel component -- enabled by "YARROW_RNG" option.
The files sha2.c, hash.c, randomdev_soft.c and yarrow.c comprise yarrow.

* random(4) device doesn't really depend on rijndael-*. Yarrow, however, does.

* Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's.
random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4).
random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) very early in bootup.
Unplugging random_adaptor from random(4) is not supported, and is probably a
bad idea anyway, due to potential loss of entropy pools.
We currently have 3 random_adaptors:
+ yarrow
+ rdrand (ivy.c)
+ nehemeiah

* Remove platform dependent logic from probe.c, and move it into
corresponding registration routines of each random_adaptor provider.
probe.c doesn't do anything other than picking a specific random_adaptor
from a list of registered ones.

* If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present then the
creation of /dev/random is postponed until next random_adaptor is kldload'ed.

* Fix randomdev_soft.c to refer to its own random_adaptor, instead of a
system wide one.

Submitted by: arthurmesh@gmail.com, obrien
Obtained from: Juniper Networks
Reviewed by: obrien

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# cfe30d02 19-Jun-2013 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Merge fresh head.


Revision tags: release/8.4.0, release/9.1.0
# e477abf7 27-Nov-2012 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

MFC @ r241285


# a10c6f55 11-Nov-2012 Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>

IFC @ r242684


# 23090366 04-Nov-2012 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org>

Sync from head


# e6809555 19-Sep-2012 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Add Intel RdRand.


# 01361d69 07-Sep-2012 Niclas Zeising <zeising@FreeBSD.org>

Change the link pointing to more information about the Yarrow algorithm, the
current link points to a irrelevant catchall site.

PR: docs/171411
Submitted by: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec@ijs.si> (p

Change the link pointing to more information about the Yarrow algorithm, the
current link points to a irrelevant catchall site.

PR: docs/171411
Submitted by: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec@ijs.si> (pr), me (patch)
Approved by: joel (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks

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Revision tags: release/8.3.0_cvs, release/8.3.0, release/9.0.0, release/7.4.0_cvs, release/8.2.0_cvs, release/7.4.0, release/8.2.0
# 0d9deed5 08-Oct-2010 Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@FreeBSD.org>

mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls

They have no effect when coming in pairs, or before .Bl/.Bd


Revision tags: release/8.1.0_cvs, release/8.1.0, release/7.3.0_cvs, release/7.3.0, release/8.0.0_cvs, release/8.0.0, release/7.2.0_cvs, release/7.2.0, release/7.1.0_cvs, release/7.1.0, release/6.4.0_cvs, release/6.4.0, release/7.0.0_cvs, release/7.0.0, release/6.3.0_cvs, release/6.3.0, release/6.2.0_cvs, release/6.2.0
# 81ae4b8d 18-Sep-2006 Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>

Markup fixes.


# 961ed934 19-Jul-2006 Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>

- Bring kern.random output closer to reality
- Remove kern.random.sys.burst, it's no longer available
- Document kern.random.sys.harvest.swi (1)

PR: 100167 (1)
MFC after: 3 days


Revision tags: release/5.5.0_cvs, release/5.5.0, release/6.1.0_cvs, release/6.1.0, release/6.0.0_cvs, release/6.0.0, release/5.4.0_cvs, release/5.4.0, release/4.11.0_cvs, release/4.11.0
# 64f13abc 23-Dec-2004 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>

Fix a couple of typos.

PR: docs/75410
Submitted by: "Paul A.Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
MFC after: 3 days


Revision tags: release/5.3.0_cvs, release/5.3.0
# be0a655e 03-Oct-2004 Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org>

Add a SYNOPSIS section for io(4), mem(4), or random(4), since they are
now optional devices.

MFC after: 1 week


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