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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2013-07-29 20:26:27 +0000
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>2013-07-29 20:26:27 +0000
commit721ce839c7c49ecca90b66a4523be0e6e29c057e (patch)
tree7321ee5c53e41f64a4e3a37d1e501321672bb5af /sys/conf
parentf6b004c36a12554e599bc79d3f4efc2047574d1b (diff)
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Decouple yarrow from random(4) device.
* Make Yarrow an optional kernel component -- enabled by "YARROW_RNG" option. The files sha2.c, hash.c, randomdev_soft.c and yarrow.c comprise yarrow. * random(4) device doesn't really depend on rijndael-*. Yarrow, however, does. * Add random_adaptors.[ch] which is basically a store of random_adaptor's. random_adaptor is basically an adapter that plugs in to random(4). random_adaptor can only be plugged in to random(4) very early in bootup. Unplugging random_adaptor from random(4) is not supported, and is probably a bad idea anyway, due to potential loss of entropy pools. We currently have 3 random_adaptors: + yarrow + rdrand (ivy.c) + nehemeiah * Remove platform dependent logic from probe.c, and move it into corresponding registration routines of each random_adaptor provider. probe.c doesn't do anything other than picking a specific random_adaptor from a list of registered ones. * If the kernel doesn't have any random_adaptor adapters present then the creation of /dev/random is postponed until next random_adaptor is kldload'ed. * Fix randomdev_soft.c to refer to its own random_adaptor, instead of a system wide one. Submitted by: arthurmesh@gmail.com, obrien Obtained from: Juniper Networks Reviewed by: obrien
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/conf')
-rw-r--r--sys/conf/NOTES3
-rw-r--r--sys/conf/files11
-rw-r--r--sys/conf/options3
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sys/conf/NOTES b/sys/conf/NOTES
index dce2168..dfde8df 100644
--- a/sys/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/conf/NOTES
@@ -1132,6 +1132,9 @@ options VFS_AIO
# Cryptographically secure random number generator; /dev/random
device random
+# Yarrow software RNG adapter for random
+options YARROW_RNG
+
# The system memory devices; /dev/mem, /dev/kmem
device mem
diff --git a/sys/conf/files b/sys/conf/files
index 4a1a432..3e23454 100644
--- a/sys/conf/files
+++ b/sys/conf/files
@@ -540,8 +540,8 @@ crypto/des/des_ecb.c optional crypto | ipsec | netsmb
crypto/des/des_setkey.c optional crypto | ipsec | netsmb
crypto/rc4/rc4.c optional netgraph_mppc_encryption | kgssapi
crypto/rijndael/rijndael-alg-fst.c optional crypto | geom_bde | \
- ipsec | random | wlan_ccmp
-crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.c optional geom_bde | random
+ ipsec | yarrow_rng | wlan_ccmp
+crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.c optional geom_bde | yarrow_rng
crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api.c optional crypto | ipsec | wlan_ccmp
crypto/sha1.c optional carp | crypto | ipsec | \
netgraph_mppc_encryption | sctp
@@ -2030,11 +2030,12 @@ rt2860.fw optional rt2860fw | ralfw \
no-obj no-implicit-rule \
clean "rt2860.fw"
dev/random/harvest.c standard
-dev/random/hash.c optional random
+dev/random/hash.c optional yarrow_rng
dev/random/probe.c optional random
+dev/random/random_adaptors.c standard
dev/random/randomdev.c optional random
-dev/random/randomdev_soft.c optional random
-dev/random/yarrow.c optional random
+dev/random/randomdev_soft.c optional yarrow_rng
+dev/random/yarrow.c optional yarrow_rng
dev/rc/rc.c optional rc
dev/re/if_re.c optional re
dev/rndtest/rndtest.c optional rndtest
diff --git a/sys/conf/options b/sys/conf/options
index d9057cc..de695cb 100644
--- a/sys/conf/options
+++ b/sys/conf/options
@@ -905,3 +905,6 @@ RACCT opt_global.h
# Resource Limits
RCTL opt_global.h
+
+# Software random number generators for random(4)
+YARROW_RNG opt_dontuse.h
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