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Commit 2a50d805 authored by Pablo Neira Ayuso's avatar Pablo Neira Ayuso
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Revert "netfilter: avoid get_random_bytes calls"

This reverts commit a42b99a6.

Hannes Frederic Sowa reported some problems with this patch, more specifically
that prandom_u32() may not be ready at boot time, see:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=138896532403533&w=2



Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent b912b2f8
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@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/jhash.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <net/sock.h>
#include <net/netfilter/nf_log.h>
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ struct nfulnl_instance {
};

#define INSTANCE_BUCKETS	16
static unsigned int hash_init;

static int nfnl_log_net_id __read_mostly;

@@ -1063,6 +1066,11 @@ static int __init nfnetlink_log_init(void)
{
	int status = -ENOMEM;

	/* it's not really all that important to have a random value, so
	 * we can do this from the init function, even if there hasn't
	 * been that much entropy yet */
	get_random_bytes(&hash_init, sizeof(hash_init));

	netlink_register_notifier(&nfulnl_rtnl_notifier);
	status = nfnetlink_subsys_register(&nfulnl_subsys);
	if (status < 0) {
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@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int nft_hash_init(const struct nft_set *set,
	unsigned int cnt, i;

	if (unlikely(!nft_hash_rnd_initted)) {
		nft_hash_rnd = prandom_u32();
		get_random_bytes(&nft_hash_rnd, 4);
		nft_hash_rnd_initted = true;
	}

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@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int xt_rateest_tg_checkentry(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
	int ret;

	if (unlikely(!rnd_inited)) {
		jhash_rnd = prandom_u32();
		get_random_bytes(&jhash_rnd, sizeof(jhash_rnd));
		rnd_inited = true;
	}

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@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int connlimit_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)
		u_int32_t rand;

		do {
			rand = prandom_u32();
			get_random_bytes(&rand, sizeof(rand));
		} while (!rand);
		cmpxchg(&connlimit_rnd, 0, rand);
	}
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@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ dsthash_alloc_init(struct xt_hashlimit_htable *ht,
	/* initialize hash with random val at the time we allocate
	 * the first hashtable entry */
	if (unlikely(!ht->rnd_initialized)) {
		ht->rnd = prandom_u32();
		get_random_bytes(&ht->rnd, sizeof(ht->rnd));
		ht->rnd_initialized = true;
	}

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