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authorbors <bors@rust-lang.org>2016-05-06 03:07:00 -0700
committerbors <bors@rust-lang.org>2016-05-06 03:07:00 -0700
commita36c41912ba91435d75ab5702ed8bc30116565fe (patch)
tree21f1a06a4801fefe286ff62d41ffcd27129d5061
parent6301e22e157ba676b0b2477f6670ab8f954767a8 (diff)
parent61cbd07dec2d9670f170bed44f1815ea29a8a214 (diff)
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Auto merge of #33086 - cardoe:non-blocking-rand-read, r=alexcrichton
rand: don't block before random pool is initialized

If we attempt a read with getrandom() on Linux the syscall can block
before the random pool is initialized unless the GRND_NONBLOCK flag is
passed. This flag causes getrandom() to instead return EAGAIN while the
pool is uninitialized. To avoid downstream users of crate or std
functionality that have no ability to avoid this blocking behavior this
change causes Rust to read bytes from /dev/urandom while getrandom()
would block and once getrandom() is available to use that. Fixes #32953.

Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
-rw-r--r--src/libstd/collections/hash/map.rs6
-rw-r--r--src/libstd/sys/unix/rand.rs17
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/collections/hash/map.rs b/src/libstd/collections/hash/map.rs
index abb33b33f3f..9c688785741 100644
--- a/src/libstd/collections/hash/map.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/collections/hash/map.rs
@@ -202,8 +202,10 @@ fn test_resize_policy() {
 /// The hashes are all keyed by the thread-local random number generator
 /// on creation by default. This means that the ordering of the keys is
 /// randomized, but makes the tables more resistant to
-/// denial-of-service attacks (Hash DoS). This behavior can be
-/// overridden with one of the constructors.
+/// denial-of-service attacks (Hash DoS). No guarantees are made to the
+/// quality of the random data. The implementation uses the best available
+/// random data from your platform at the time of creation. This behavior
+/// can be overridden with one of the constructors.
 ///
 /// It is required that the keys implement the `Eq` and `Hash` traits, although
 /// this can frequently be achieved by using `#[derive(PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]`.
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/unix/rand.rs b/src/libstd/sys/unix/rand.rs
index 92c3bf8829a..25a7a3ce50d 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/unix/rand.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/unix/rand.rs
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ mod imp {
         #[cfg(target_arch = "aarch64")]
         const NR_GETRANDOM: libc::c_long = 278;
 
+        const GRND_NONBLOCK: libc::c_uint = 0x0001;
+
         unsafe {
-            libc::syscall(NR_GETRANDOM, buf.as_mut_ptr(), buf.len(), 0)
+            libc::syscall(NR_GETRANDOM, buf.as_mut_ptr(), buf.len(), GRND_NONBLOCK)
         }
     }
 
@@ -63,6 +65,19 @@ mod imp {
                 let err = errno() as libc::c_int;
                 if err == libc::EINTR {
                     continue;
+                } else if err == libc::EAGAIN {
+                    // if getrandom() returns EAGAIN it would have blocked
+                    // because the non-blocking pool (urandom) has not
+                    // initialized in the kernel yet due to a lack of entropy
+                    // the fallback we do here is to avoid blocking applications
+                    // which could depend on this call without ever knowing
+                    // they do and don't have a work around. The PRNG of
+                    // /dev/urandom will still be used but not over a completely
+                    // full entropy pool
+                    let reader = File::open("/dev/urandom").expect("Unable to open /dev/urandom");
+                    let mut reader_rng = ReaderRng::new(reader);
+                    reader_rng.fill_bytes(& mut v[read..]);
+                    read += v.len() as usize;
                 } else {
                     panic!("unexpected getrandom error: {}", err);
                 }