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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:53:47 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r338293 - head/sys/dev/random
Message-ID:  <201808241453.w7OErlYl010281@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: markm
Date: Fri Aug 24 14:53:46 2018
New Revision: 338293
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/338293

Log:
  Limit the amount of "fast" entropy. We don't need nearly as much
  for security, and the excess just slows things down badly.
  
  PR:             230808
  Submitted by:   rwmaillists@googlemail.com, but tweeked by me
  Reported by:    Danilo Egea Gondolfo <danilo@FreeBSD.org>
  Reviewed by:	cem,delphij
  Approved by:	re(rgrimes)
  Approved by:	so(delphij)
  MFC after:      1 Month
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16873

Modified:
  head/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.c

Modified: head/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.c	Fri Aug 24 14:53:42 2018	(r338292)
+++ head/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.c	Fri Aug 24 14:53:46 2018	(r338293)
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
 #include <machine/atomic.h>
 #include <machine/cpu.h>
 
+#include <crypto/rijndael/rijndael-api-fst.h>
+#include <crypto/sha2/sha256.h>
+
+#include <dev/random/hash.h>
 #include <dev/random/randomdev.h>
 #include <dev/random/random_harvestq.h>
 
@@ -213,8 +217,12 @@ random_sources_feed(void)
 	/* It's an indenting error. Yeah, Yeah. */
 #endif
 	local_read_rate = atomic_readandclear_32(&read_rate);
+	/* Perform at least one read per round */
+	local_read_rate = MAX(local_read_rate, 1);
+	/* But not exceeding RANDOM_KEYSIZE_WORDS */
+	local_read_rate = MIN(local_read_rate, RANDOM_KEYSIZE_WORDS);
 	LIST_FOREACH(rrs, &source_list, rrs_entries) {
-		for (i = 0; i < p_random_alg_context->ra_poolcount*(local_read_rate + 1); i++) {
+		for (i = 0; i < p_random_alg_context->ra_poolcount*local_read_rate; i++) {
 			n = rrs->rrs_source->rs_read(entropy, sizeof(entropy));
 			KASSERT((n <= sizeof(entropy)), ("%s: rs_read returned too much data (%u > %zu)", __func__, n, sizeof(entropy)));
 			/* It would appear that in some circumstances (e.g. virtualisation),



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