xref: /libuv/src/unix/random-devurandom.c (revision acfe668e)
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21 
22 #include "uv.h"
23 #include "internal.h"
24 
25 #include <sys/stat.h>
26 #include <unistd.h>
27 
28 static uv_once_t once = UV_ONCE_INIT;
29 static int status;
30 
31 
uv__random_readpath(const char * path,void * buf,size_t buflen)32 int uv__random_readpath(const char* path, void* buf, size_t buflen) {
33   struct stat s;
34   size_t pos;
35   ssize_t n;
36   int fd;
37 
38   fd = uv__open_cloexec(path, O_RDONLY);
39 
40   if (fd < 0)
41     return fd;
42 
43   if (uv__fstat(fd, &s)) {
44     uv__close(fd);
45     return UV__ERR(errno);
46   }
47 
48   if (!S_ISCHR(s.st_mode)) {
49     uv__close(fd);
50     return UV_EIO;
51   }
52 
53   for (pos = 0; pos != buflen; pos += n) {
54     do
55       n = read(fd, (char*) buf + pos, buflen - pos);
56     while (n == -1 && errno == EINTR);
57 
58     if (n == -1) {
59       uv__close(fd);
60       return UV__ERR(errno);
61     }
62 
63     if (n == 0) {
64       uv__close(fd);
65       return UV_EIO;
66     }
67   }
68 
69   uv__close(fd);
70   return 0;
71 }
72 
73 
uv__random_devurandom_init(void)74 static void uv__random_devurandom_init(void) {
75   char c;
76 
77   /* Linux's random(4) man page suggests applications should read at least
78    * once from /dev/random before switching to /dev/urandom in order to seed
79    * the system RNG. Reads from /dev/random can of course block indefinitely
80    * until entropy is available but that's the point.
81    */
82   status = uv__random_readpath("/dev/random", &c, 1);
83 }
84 
85 
uv__random_devurandom(void * buf,size_t buflen)86 int uv__random_devurandom(void* buf, size_t buflen) {
87   uv_once(&once, uv__random_devurandom_init);
88 
89   if (status != 0)
90     return status;
91 
92   return uv__random_readpath("/dev/urandom", buf, buflen);
93 }
94