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4 Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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22 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
29 #include <linux/random.h>
31 #include "random-util.h"
32 #include "time-util.h"
36 int dev_urandom(void *p, size_t n) {
37 static int have_syscall = -1;
39 _cleanup_close_ int fd = -1;
42 /* Gathers some randomness from the kernel. This call will
43 * never block, and will always return some data from the
44 * kernel, regardless if the random pool is fully initialized
45 * or not. It thus makes no guarantee for the quality of the
46 * returned entropy, but is good enough for or usual usecases
47 * of seeding the hash functions for hashtable */
49 /* Use the getrandom() syscall unless we know we don't have
50 * it, or when the requested size is too large for it. */
51 if (have_syscall != 0 || (size_t) (int) n != n) {
52 r = getrandom(p, n, GRND_NONBLOCK);
60 /* we lack the syscall, continue with
61 * reading from /dev/urandom */
63 else if (errno == EAGAIN)
64 /* not enough entropy for now. Let's
65 * remember to use the syscall the
66 * next time, again, but also read
67 * from /dev/urandom for now, which
68 * doesn't care about the current
69 * amount of entropy. */
78 fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY);
80 return errno == ENOENT ? -ENOSYS : -errno;
82 return loop_read_exact(fd, p, n, true);
85 void initialize_srand(void) {
86 static bool srand_called = false;
88 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
97 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_AUXV_H
98 /* The kernel provides us with a bit of entropy in auxv, so
99 * let's try to make use of that to seed the pseudo-random
100 * generator. It's better than nothing... */
102 auxv = (void*) getauxval(AT_RANDOM);
104 x ^= *(unsigned*) auxv;
107 x ^= (unsigned) now(CLOCK_REALTIME);
108 x ^= (unsigned) gettid();
114 void random_bytes(void *p, size_t n) {
118 r = dev_urandom(p, n);
122 /* If some idiot made /dev/urandom unavailable to us, he'll
123 * get a PRNG instead. */
127 for (q = p; q < (uint8_t*) p + n; q ++)