getrandom/backends/
use_file.rs

1//! Implementations that just need to read from a file
2use crate::Error;
3use core::{
4    ffi::c_void,
5    mem::MaybeUninit,
6    sync::atomic::{AtomicI32, Ordering},
7};
8
9#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux")))]
10pub use crate::util::{inner_u32, inner_u64};
11
12#[path = "../util_libc.rs"]
13pub(super) mod util_libc;
14
15/// For all platforms, we use `/dev/urandom` rather than `/dev/random`.
16/// For more information see the linked man pages in lib.rs.
17///   - On Linux, "/dev/urandom is preferred and sufficient in all use cases".
18///   - On Redox, only /dev/urandom is provided.
19///   - On AIX, /dev/urandom will "provide cryptographically secure output".
20///   - On Haiku and QNX Neutrino they are identical.
21const FILE_PATH: &[u8] = b"/dev/urandom\0";
22
23// File descriptor is a "nonnegative integer", so we can safely use negative sentinel values.
24const FD_UNINIT: libc::c_int = -1;
25const FD_ONGOING_INIT: libc::c_int = -2;
26
27// In theory `libc::c_int` could be something other than `i32`, but for the
28// targets we currently support that use `use_file`, it is always `i32`.
29// If/when we add support for a target where that isn't the case, we may
30// need to use a different atomic type or make other accomodations. The
31// compiler will let us know if/when that is the case, because the
32// `FD.store(fd)` would fail to compile.
33//
34// The opening of the file, by libc/libstd/etc. may write some unknown
35// state into in-process memory. (Such state may include some sanitizer
36// bookkeeping, or we might be operating in a unikernal-like environment
37// where all the "kernel" file descriptor bookkeeping is done in our
38// process.) `get_fd_locked` stores into FD using `Ordering::Release` to
39// ensure any such state is synchronized. `get_fd` loads from `FD` with
40// `Ordering::Acquire` to synchronize with it.
41static FD: AtomicI32 = AtomicI32::new(FD_UNINIT);
42
43#[inline]
44pub fn fill_inner(dest: &mut [MaybeUninit<u8>]) -> Result<(), Error> {
45    let mut fd = FD.load(Ordering::Acquire);
46    if fd == FD_UNINIT || fd == FD_ONGOING_INIT {
47        fd = open_or_wait()?;
48    }
49    util_libc::sys_fill_exact(dest, |buf| unsafe {
50        libc::read(fd, buf.as_mut_ptr().cast::<c_void>(), buf.len())
51    })
52}
53
54/// Open a file in read-only mode.
55///
56/// # Panics
57/// If `path` does not contain any zeros.
58// TODO: Move `path` to `CStr` and use `CStr::from_bytes_until_nul` (MSRV 1.69)
59// or C-string literals (MSRV 1.77) for statics
60fn open_readonly(path: &[u8]) -> Result<libc::c_int, Error> {
61    assert!(path.contains(&0));
62    loop {
63        let fd = unsafe {
64            libc::open(
65                path.as_ptr().cast::<libc::c_char>(),
66                libc::O_RDONLY | libc::O_CLOEXEC,
67            )
68        };
69        if fd >= 0 {
70            return Ok(fd);
71        }
72        let err = util_libc::last_os_error();
73        // We should try again if open() was interrupted.
74        if err.raw_os_error() != Some(libc::EINTR) {
75            return Err(err);
76        }
77    }
78}
79
80#[cold]
81#[inline(never)]
82fn open_or_wait() -> Result<libc::c_int, Error> {
83    loop {
84        match FD.load(Ordering::Acquire) {
85            FD_UNINIT => {
86                let res = FD.compare_exchange_weak(
87                    FD_UNINIT,
88                    FD_ONGOING_INIT,
89                    Ordering::AcqRel,
90                    Ordering::Relaxed,
91                );
92                if res.is_ok() {
93                    break;
94                }
95            }
96            FD_ONGOING_INIT => sync::wait(),
97            fd => return Ok(fd),
98        }
99    }
100
101    let res = open_fd();
102    let val = match res {
103        Ok(fd) => fd,
104        Err(_) => FD_UNINIT,
105    };
106    FD.store(val, Ordering::Release);
107
108    // On non-Linux targets `wait` is just 1 ms sleep,
109    // so we don't need any explicit wake up in addition
110    // to updating value of `FD`.
111    #[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux"))]
112    sync::wake();
113
114    res
115}
116
117fn open_fd() -> Result<libc::c_int, Error> {
118    #[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux"))]
119    sync::wait_until_rng_ready()?;
120    let fd = open_readonly(FILE_PATH)?;
121    debug_assert!(fd >= 0);
122    Ok(fd)
123}
124
125#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux")))]
126mod sync {
127    /// Sleep 1 ms before checking `FD` again.
128    ///
129    /// On non-Linux targets the critical section only opens file,
130    /// which should not block, so in the unlikely contended case,
131    /// we can sleep-wait for the opening operation to finish.
132    pub(super) fn wait() {
133        let rqtp = libc::timespec {
134            tv_sec: 0,
135            tv_nsec: 1_000_000,
136        };
137        let mut rmtp = libc::timespec {
138            tv_sec: 0,
139            tv_nsec: 0,
140        };
141        // We do not care if sleep gets interrupted, so the return value is ignored
142        unsafe {
143            libc::nanosleep(&rqtp, &mut rmtp);
144        }
145    }
146}
147
148#[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "linux"))]
149mod sync {
150    use super::{open_readonly, util_libc::last_os_error, Error, FD, FD_ONGOING_INIT};
151
152    /// Wait for atomic `FD` to change value from `FD_ONGOING_INIT` to something else.
153    ///
154    /// Futex syscall with `FUTEX_WAIT` op puts the current thread to sleep
155    /// until futex syscall with `FUTEX_WAKE` op gets executed for `FD`.
156    ///
157    /// For more information read: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/futex.2.html
158    pub(super) fn wait() {
159        let op = libc::FUTEX_WAIT | libc::FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG;
160        let timeout_ptr = core::ptr::null::<libc::timespec>();
161        let ret = unsafe { libc::syscall(libc::SYS_futex, &FD, op, FD_ONGOING_INIT, timeout_ptr) };
162        // FUTEX_WAIT should return either 0 or EAGAIN error
163        debug_assert!({
164            match ret {
165                0 => true,
166                -1 => last_os_error().raw_os_error() == Some(libc::EAGAIN),
167                _ => false,
168            }
169        });
170    }
171
172    /// Wake up all threads which wait for value of atomic `FD` to change.
173    pub(super) fn wake() {
174        let op = libc::FUTEX_WAKE | libc::FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG;
175        let ret = unsafe { libc::syscall(libc::SYS_futex, &FD, op, libc::INT_MAX) };
176        debug_assert!(ret >= 0);
177    }
178
179    // Polls /dev/random to make sure it is ok to read from /dev/urandom.
180    //
181    // Polling avoids draining the estimated entropy from /dev/random;
182    // short-lived processes reading even a single byte from /dev/random could
183    // be problematic if they are being executed faster than entropy is being
184    // collected.
185    //
186    // OTOH, reading a byte instead of polling is more compatible with
187    // sandboxes that disallow `poll()` but which allow reading /dev/random,
188    // e.g. sandboxes that assume that `poll()` is for network I/O. This way,
189    // fewer applications will have to insert pre-sandbox-initialization logic.
190    // Often (blocking) file I/O is not allowed in such early phases of an
191    // application for performance and/or security reasons.
192    //
193    // It is hard to write a sandbox policy to support `libc::poll()` because
194    // it may invoke the `poll`, `ppoll`, `ppoll_time64` (since Linux 5.1, with
195    // newer versions of glibc), and/or (rarely, and probably only on ancient
196    // systems) `select`. depending on the libc implementation (e.g. glibc vs
197    // musl), libc version, potentially the kernel version at runtime, and/or
198    // the target architecture.
199    //
200    // BoringSSL and libstd don't try to protect against insecure output from
201    // `/dev/urandom'; they don't open `/dev/random` at all.
202    //
203    // OpenSSL uses `libc::select()` unless the `dev/random` file descriptor
204    // is too large; if it is too large then it does what we do here.
205    //
206    // libsodium uses `libc::poll` similarly to this.
207    pub(super) fn wait_until_rng_ready() -> Result<(), Error> {
208        let fd = open_readonly(b"/dev/random\0")?;
209        let mut pfd = libc::pollfd {
210            fd,
211            events: libc::POLLIN,
212            revents: 0,
213        };
214
215        let res = loop {
216            // A negative timeout means an infinite timeout.
217            let res = unsafe { libc::poll(&mut pfd, 1, -1) };
218            if res >= 0 {
219                // We only used one fd, and cannot timeout.
220                debug_assert_eq!(res, 1);
221                break Ok(());
222            }
223            let err = last_os_error();
224            // Assuming that `poll` is called correctly,
225            // on Linux it can return only EINTR and ENOMEM errors.
226            match err.raw_os_error() {
227                Some(libc::EINTR) => continue,
228                _ => break Err(err),
229            }
230        };
231        unsafe { libc::close(fd) };
232        res
233    }
234}