timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:53:34 +0000 (23:53 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:24:24 +0000 (14:24 +0200)
commit96ba981f09a9ebe683ab629a1205fec120e77ce9
treecdfd798203660a98e6895842053fba20f3be15fe
parent6b841a891d28983bf5982c1dedad828546adfdfb
timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change

[ Upstream commit b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 ]

The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.

This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/time/timekeeping.c