add getentropy function

based loosely on patch by Hauke Mehrtens; converted to wrap the public
API of the underlying getrandom function rather than direct syscalls,
so that if/when a fallback implementation of getrandom is added it
will automatically get picked up by getentropy too.
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Rich Felker 2018-02-23 02:54:01 -05:00
parent e206582091
commit 82f176803a
2 changed files with 32 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ int acct(const char *);
long syscall(long, ...); long syscall(long, ...);
int execvpe(const char *, char *const [], char *const []); int execvpe(const char *, char *const [], char *const []);
int issetugid(void); int issetugid(void);
int getentropy(void *, size_t);
#endif #endif
#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE

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src/misc/getentropy.c Normal file
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#include <sys/random.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <errno.h>
int getentropy(void *buffer, size_t len)
{
int cs, ret;
char *pos = buffer;
if (len > 256) {
errno = EIO;
return -1;
}
pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE, &cs);
while (len) {
ret = getrandom(pos, len, 0);
if (ret < 0) {
if (errno == EINTR) continue;
else break;
}
pos += ret;
len -= ret;
ret = 0;
}
pthread_setcancelstate(cs, 0);
return ret;
}