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mbedtls/library/psa_crypto_random.c
Gilles Peskine fd0e168fab Extend PSA RNG fork protection to NV-seed-only configurations
In builds with only a nonvolatile seed but no actual entropy source, the
naive protection against fork() by reseeding in the child doesn't work:
every child forked from the same RNG state gets the same RNG state. To make
the child's RNG state unique in that case, use a public but unique
personalization string.

The personalization string includes the time. Use `mbedtls_ms_time()` if
available. Fall back to the classic (but obsolescent) `gettimeofday()`
otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
2026-03-16 17:50:06 +01:00

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/*
* PSA crypto random generator.
*/
/*
* Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors
* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
*/
#include "common.h"
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_C) && !defined(MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_EXTERNAL_RNG)
#include "psa_crypto_core.h"
#include "psa_crypto_random.h"
#include "psa_crypto_random_impl.h"
#include "threading_internal.h"
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PSA_INJECT_ENTROPY)
#include "entropy_poll.h"
#endif
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_IS_UNIXLIKE)
/* For getpid(), for fork protection */
#include <unistd.h>
#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
#include <mbedtls/platform_time.h>
#else
/* For gettimeofday(), for fork protection without actual entropy */
#include <sys/time.h>
#endif
#endif
void psa_random_internal_init(mbedtls_psa_random_context_t *rng)
{
/* Set default configuration if
* mbedtls_psa_crypto_configure_entropy_sources() hasn't been called. */
if (rng->entropy_init == NULL) {
rng->entropy_init = mbedtls_entropy_init;
}
if (rng->entropy_free == NULL) {
rng->entropy_free = mbedtls_entropy_free;
}
rng->entropy_init(&rng->entropy);
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PSA_INJECT_ENTROPY) && \
defined(MBEDTLS_NO_DEFAULT_ENTROPY_SOURCES)
/* The PSA entropy injection feature depends on using NV seed as an entropy
* source. Add NV seed as an entropy source for PSA entropy injection. */
mbedtls_entropy_add_source(&rng->entropy,
mbedtls_nv_seed_poll, NULL,
MBEDTLS_ENTROPY_BLOCK_SIZE,
MBEDTLS_ENTROPY_SOURCE_STRONG);
#endif
mbedtls_psa_drbg_init(&rng->drbg);
}
void psa_random_internal_free(mbedtls_psa_random_context_t *rng)
{
mbedtls_psa_drbg_free(&rng->drbg);
rng->entropy_free(&rng->entropy);
}
psa_status_t psa_random_internal_seed(mbedtls_psa_random_context_t *rng)
{
const unsigned char drbg_seed[] = "PSA";
int ret = mbedtls_psa_drbg_seed(&rng->drbg, &rng->entropy,
drbg_seed, sizeof(drbg_seed) - 1);
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_IS_UNIXLIKE)
rng->pid = getpid();
#endif
return mbedtls_to_psa_error(ret);
}
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_IS_UNIXLIKE)
static psa_status_t psa_random_internal_reseed_child(
mbedtls_psa_random_context_t *rng,
intmax_t pid)
{
/* Reseeding from actual entropy gives the child a unique RNG state
* which the parent process cannot predict, and wipes the
* parent's RNG state from the child.
*
* However, in some library configurations, there is no actual
* entropy source, only a nonvolatile seed (MBEDTLS_ENTROPY_NV_SEED
* enabled and no actual entropy source enabled). In such a
* configuration, the reseed operation is deterministic and
* always injects the same content, so with the DRBG reseed
* process alone, for example, two child processes forked in
* close sequence would end up with the same RNG state.
* To avoid this, we use a personalization string that has a high
* likelihood of being unique. This way, the child has a unique state.
* The parent can predict the child's RNG state until the next time
* it reseeds or generates some random output, but that's
* unavoidable in the absence of actual entropy.
*/
struct {
/* Using the PID mostly guarantees that each child gets a
* unique state. */
/* Use intmax_t, not pid_t, because some Unix-like platforms
* don't define pid_t, or more likely nowadays they define
* pid_t but only with certain platform macros which might not
* be the exact ones we use. In practice, this only costs
* a couple of instructions to pass and compare two words
* rather than one.
*/
intmax_t pid;
/* In case an old child had died and its PID is reused for
* a new child of the same process, also include the time. */
#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
mbedtls_ms_time_t now;
#else
struct timeval now;
#endif
} perso;
memset(&perso, 0, sizeof(perso));
perso.pid = pid;
#if defined(MBEDTLS_HAVE_TIME)
perso.now = mbedtls_ms_time();
#else
/* We don't have mbedtls_ms_time(), but the platform has getpid().
* Use gettimeofday(), which is a classic Unix function. Modern POSIX
* has stopped requiring gettimeofday() (in favor of clock_gettime()),
* but this is fallback code for restricted configurations, so it's
* more likely to be used on embedded platforms that only have a subset
* of Unix APIs and are more likely to have the classic gettimeofday(). */
if (gettimeofday(&perso.now, NULL) == -1) {
return PSA_ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_ENTROPY;
}
#endif
int ret = mbedtls_psa_drbg_reseed(&rng->drbg,
(unsigned char *) &perso, sizeof(perso));
return mbedtls_to_psa_error(ret);
}
#endif /* MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_IS_UNIXLIKE */
psa_status_t psa_random_internal_generate(
mbedtls_psa_random_context_t *rng,
uint8_t *output, size_t output_size)
{
#if defined(MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_IS_UNIXLIKE)
intmax_t pid = getpid();
if (pid != rng->pid) {
/* This is a (grand...)child of the original process, but
* we inherited the RNG state from our parent. We must reseed! */
#if defined(MBEDTLS_THREADING_C)
mbedtls_mutex_lock(&mbedtls_threading_psa_rngdata_mutex);
#endif /* defined(MBEDTLS_THREADING_C) */
psa_status_t status = psa_random_internal_reseed_child(rng, pid);
if (status == PSA_SUCCESS) {
rng->pid = pid;
}
#if defined(MBEDTLS_THREADING_C)
mbedtls_mutex_unlock(&mbedtls_threading_psa_rngdata_mutex);
#endif /* defined(MBEDTLS_THREADING_C) */
if (status != PSA_SUCCESS) {
return status;
}
}
#endif /* MBEDTLS_PLATFORM_IS_UNIXLIKE */
while (output_size > 0) {
size_t request_size =
(output_size > MBEDTLS_PSA_RANDOM_MAX_REQUEST ?
MBEDTLS_PSA_RANDOM_MAX_REQUEST :
output_size);
#if defined(MBEDTLS_CTR_DRBG_C)
int ret = mbedtls_ctr_drbg_random(&rng->drbg, output, request_size);
#elif defined(MBEDTLS_HMAC_DRBG_C)
int ret = mbedtls_hmac_drbg_random(&rng->drbg, output, request_size);
#endif /* !MBEDTLS_CTR_DRBG_C && !MBEDTLS_HMAC_DRBG_C */
if (ret != 0) {
return mbedtls_to_psa_error(ret);
}
output_size -= request_size;
output += request_size;
}
return PSA_SUCCESS;
}
#endif /* MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_C && !MBEDTLS_PSA_CRYPTO_EXTERNAL_RNG */