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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2016-05-18 14:14:28 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-05-20 11:18:21 -0700
commitb7552e1bccbe3da9c8e7386c6188e8ea4667c8e7 (patch)
treeb688a09ce700098d34a06040dba03406feb0e439 /mm
parent09ec8e7fb6bcb351bbded18a571ea037504bb3a6 (diff)
bpf: rather use get_random_int for randomizations
Start address randomization and blinding in BPF currently use prandom_u32(). prandom_u32() values are not exposed to unpriviledged user space to my knowledge, but given other kernel facilities such as ASLR, stack canaries, etc make use of stronger get_random_int(), we better make use of it here as well given blinding requests successively new random values. get_random_int() has minimal entropy pool depletion, is not cryptographically secure, but doesn't need to be for our use cases here. Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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