We currently have a convoluted and complex selection of which random
numbers to use. We can simplify this down to two functions that cover
all of our use cases:
1) Randomness for crypto: this one needs to wait until the RNG is
initialized. So it uses getrandom(0). If that's not available, it
polls on /dev/random, and then reads from /dev/urandom. This function
returns whether or not it was successful, as before.
2) Randomness for other things: this one uses getrandom(GRND_INSECURE).
If it's not available it uses getrandom(GRND_NONBLOCK). And if that
would block, then it falls back to /dev/urandom. And if /dev/urandom
isn't available, it uses the fallback code. It never fails and
doesn't return a value.
These two cases match all the uses of randomness inside of systemd.
I would prefer to make both of these return void, and get rid of the
fallback code, and simply assert in the incredibly unlikely case that
/dev/urandom doesn't exist. But Luca disagrees, so this commit attempts
to instead keep case (1) returning a return value, which all the callers
already check, and fix the fallback code in (2) to be less bad than
before.
For the less bad fallback code for (2), we now use auxval and some
timestamps, together with various counters representing the invocation,
hash it all together and provide the output. Provided that AT_RANDOM is
secure, this construction is probably okay too, though notably it
doesn't have any forward secrecy. Fortunately, it's only used by
random_bytes() and not by crypto_random_bytes().
This converts to TEST macro where it is trivial.
Some additional notable changes:
- simplify HAVE_LIBIDN #ifdef in test-dns-domain.c
- use saved_argc/saved_argv in test-copy.c, test-path-util.c,
test-tmpfiles.c and test-unit-file.c
We recently started making more use of malloc_usable_size() and rely on
it (see the string_erase() story). Given that we don't really support
sytems where malloc_usable_size() cannot be trusted beyond statistics
anyway, let's go fully in and rework GREEDY_REALLOC() on top of it:
instead of passing around and maintaining the currenly allocated size
everywhere, let's just derive it automatically from
malloc_usable_size().
I am mostly after this for the simplicity this brings. It also brings
minor efficiency improvements I guess, but things become so much nicer
to look at if we can avoid these allocation size variables everywhere.
Note that the malloc_usable_size() man page says relying on it wasn't
"good programming practice", but I think it does this for reasons that
don't apply here: the greedy realloc logic specifically doesn't rely on
the returned extra size, beyond the fact that it is equal or larger than
what was requested.
(This commit was supposed to be a quick patch btw, but apparently we use
the greedy realloc stuff quite a bit across the codebase, so this ends
up touching *a*lot* of code.)
This is a wrapper around malloc_usable_size() but is typesafe, and
divides by the element size.
A test it is also added ensuring what it does it does correcly.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
C++03: "An rvalue of arithmetic, enumeration, pointer, or pointer to member
type can be converted to an rvalue of type bool. A zero value, null pointer
value, or null member pointer value is converted to false; any other value is
converted to true"
C should behave the same because pointers are scalars in C, but let's verify
that.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
Dan Streetman
Jason A. Donenfeld
Yu Watanabe
Jan Janssen
Lennart Poettering
Christian Göttsche
Benjamin Robin
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Ronny Chevalier