[PATCH libICE] Use arc4random when available to produce the auth cookie.

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Wed Sep 4 00:40:21 PDT 2013


arc4random() and associated functions can be found in libbsd on
GNU/Linux systems.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr>
---
 configure.ac  | 3 ++-
 src/iceauth.c | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git configure.ac configure.ac
index 81809ce..701b6c8 100644
--- configure.ac
+++ configure.ac
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS
 AC_DEFINE(ICE_t, 1, [Xtrans transport type])
 
 # Checks for library functions.
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([asprintf])
+AC_CHECK_LIB([bsd], [arc4random_buf])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([asprintf arc4random_buf])
 
 # Allow checking code with lint, sparse, etc.
 XORG_WITH_LINT
diff --git src/iceauth.c src/iceauth.c
index f4d9f36..b125ddf 100644
--- src/iceauth.c
+++ src/iceauth.c
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ Author: Ralph Mor, X Consortium
 #include <time.h>
 #define Time_t time_t
 
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBBSD
+#include <bsd/stdlib.h>	/* for arc4random_buf() */
+#endif
+
 static int was_called_state;
 
 /*
@@ -58,6 +62,9 @@ IceGenerateMagicCookie (
     if ((auth = malloc (len + 1)) == NULL)
 	return (NULL);
 
+#ifdef HAVE_ARC4RANDOM_BUF
+    arc4random_buf(auth, len);
+#else
 #ifdef ITIMER_REAL
     {
 	struct timeval  now;
@@ -79,8 +86,8 @@ IceGenerateMagicCookie (
 	value = rand ();
 	auth[i] = value & 0xff;
     }
+#endif
     auth[len] = '\0';
-
     return (auth);
 }
 
-- 
1.8.3.1



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