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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-12-30 21:25:24 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-12-31 08:54:41 +0100
commit33e8e95cbd0d6724553f390142d4b11352d59dd0 (patch)
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hurd: Make getrandom a stub inside the random translator
glibc uses /dev/urandom for getrandom(), and from version 2.34 malloc
initialization uses it. We have to detect when we are running the random
translator itself, in which case we can't read ourself.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/mach')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/mach/hurd/getrandom.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/getrandom.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/getrandom.c
index 645f2930b7..24f9ac60f7 100644
--- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/getrandom.c
+++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/getrandom.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <not-cancel.h>
 
+extern char *trivfs_server_name __attribute__((weak));
+
 /* Write up to LENGTH bytes of randomness starting at BUFFER.
    Return the number of bytes written, or -1 on error.  */
 ssize_t
@@ -31,6 +33,17 @@ __getrandom (void *buffer, size_t length, unsigned int flags)
   size_t amount_read;
   int fd;
 
+  if (&trivfs_server_name && trivfs_server_name
+      && trivfs_server_name[0] == 'r'
+      && trivfs_server_name[1] == 'a'
+      && trivfs_server_name[2] == 'n'
+      && trivfs_server_name[3] == 'd'
+      && trivfs_server_name[4] == 'o'
+      && trivfs_server_name[5] == 'm'
+      && trivfs_server_name[6] == '\0')
+    /* We are random, don't try to read ourselves!  */
+    return length;
+
   if (flags & GRND_RANDOM)
     random_source = "/dev/random";