6 #include "safe_memclear.h"
19 #include <openssl/rand.h>
21 #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_RANDOM_H
22 #include <sys/syscall.h>
23 #include <linux/random.h>
26 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
29 /* Take some reasonable steps to attempt to *seed* random number generators with
30 * cryptographically random data. Some of these initialization routines may
31 * block, and are intended to be called only at startup in lighttpd, or
32 * immediately after fork() to start lighttpd workers.
34 * Note: results from li_rand() are not necessarily cryptographically random.
36 * https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_Numbers
37 * https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Random_fork-safety
39 * openssl random number generators are not thread-safe by default
40 * https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Manual:Threads(3)
42 * RFE: add more paranoid checks from the following to improve confidence:
43 * http://insanecoding.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/a-good-idea-with-bad-usage-devurandom.html
45 * RFE: check RAND_status()
48 static int li_getentropy (void *buf
, size_t buflen
)
50 #ifdef HAVE_GETENTROPY
51 return getentropy(buf
, buflen
);
53 /*(see NOTES section in 'man getrandom' on Linux)*/
54 #if defined(HAVE_GETRANDOM) || defined(SYS_getrandom)
56 #ifdef HAVE_GETRANDOM /*(not implemented in glibc yet)*/
57 int num
= getrandom(buf
, buflen
, 0);
58 #elif defined(SYS_getrandom)
59 /* https://lwn.net/Articles/605828/ */
60 /* https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200039 */
61 int num
= (int)syscall(SYS_getrandom
, buf
, buflen
, 0);
63 if (num
== (int)buflen
) return 0;
64 if (num
< 0) return num
; /* -1 */
75 static int li_rand_device_bytes (unsigned char *buf
, int num
)
77 /* randomness from these devices is cryptographically strong,
78 * unless /dev/urandom is low on entropy */
80 static const char * const devices
[] = {
88 /* device files might not be available in chroot environment,
89 * so prefer syscall, if available */
90 if (0 == li_getentropy(buf
, (size_t)num
)) return 1;
92 for (unsigned int u
= 0; u
< sizeof(devices
)/sizeof(devices
[0]); ++u
) {
93 /*(some systems might have symlink to another device; omit O_NOFOLLOW)*/
94 int fd
= fdevent_open_cloexec(devices
[u
], O_RDONLY
, 0);
99 if (0 == ioctl(fd
, RNDGETENTCNT
, &entropy
) && entropy
>= num
*8)
101 rd
= read(fd
, buf
, (size_t)num
);
112 static unsigned short xsubi
[3];
114 void li_rand_reseed (void)
116 /* (intended to be called at init and after fork() in order to re-seed PRNG
117 * so that forked children, grandchildren, etc do not share PRNG seed)
118 * https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80
119 * https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/libressls_prng_is_unsafe_on_linux
120 * (issue in early version of libressl has since been fixed)
121 * https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/commit/32d9eeeecf4e951e1566d5f4a42b36ea37b60f35
124 if (1 == li_rand_device_bytes((unsigned char *)xsubi
, (int)sizeof(xsubi
))) {
125 u
= ((unsigned int)xsubi
[0] << 16) | xsubi
[1];
128 #ifdef HAVE_ARC4RANDOM
130 arc4random_buf(xsubi
, sizeof(xsubi
));
132 /* NOTE: not cryptographically random !!! */
133 srand((unsigned int)(time(NULL
) ^ getpid()));
134 for (u
= 0; u
< sizeof(unsigned short); ++u
)
135 /* coverity[dont_call : FALSE] */
136 xsubi
[u
] = (unsigned short)(rand() & 0xFFFF);
137 u
= ((unsigned int)xsubi
[0] << 16) | xsubi
[1];
140 srand(u
); /*(initialize just in case rand() used elsewhere)*/
142 srandom(u
); /*(initialize just in case random() used elsewhere)*/
146 RAND_seed(xsubi
, (int)sizeof(xsubi
));
152 /* randomness *is not* cryptographically strong */
153 /* (attempt to use better mechanisms to replace the more portable rand()) */
156 if (-1 != RAND_pseudo_bytes((unsigned char *)&i
, sizeof(i
))) return i
;
158 #ifdef HAVE_ARC4RANDOM
159 return (int)arc4random();
160 #elif defined(HAVE_SRANDOM)
161 /* coverity[dont_call : FALSE] */
162 return (int)random();
163 #elif defined(HAVE_JRAND48)
164 /*(FYI: jrand48() reentrant, but use of file-scoped static xsubi[] is not)*/
165 /* coverity[dont_call : FALSE] */
166 return (int)jrand48(xsubi
);
168 /* coverity[dont_call : FALSE] */
173 int li_rand_bytes (unsigned char *buf
, int num
)
176 int rc
= RAND_bytes(buf
, num
);
181 if (1 == li_rand_device_bytes(buf
, num
)) {
185 /* NOTE: not cryptographically random !!! */
186 for (int i
= 0; i
< num
; ++i
)
187 buf
[i
] = li_rand() & 0xFF;
188 /*(openssl RAND_pseudo_bytes rc for non-cryptographically random data)*/
193 void li_rand_cleanup (void)
198 safe_memclear(xsubi
, sizeof(xsubi
));