Reviewers: machenbach,

Message:
PTAL

Description:
Avoid fallback to weak entropy for the PRNGs on Windows.

Add fallback to rand_s() to gather entropy on Windows for
seeding the random number generator. This is compatible
with what Blink does.

BUG=v8:2905

Please review this at https://codereview.chromium.org/24315007/

SVN Base: https://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge

Affected files (+15, -0 lines):
  M src/utils/random-number-generator.cc
  M tools/gyp/v8.gyp


Index: src/utils/random-number-generator.cc
diff --git a/src/utils/random-number-generator.cc b/src/utils/random-number-generator.cc index 5e13e8fea8536aaca706c4b6f4c4cde845445f68..1bf201b26fd36ddbba8386ee878d607ebc35c093 100644
--- a/src/utils/random-number-generator.cc
+++ b/src/utils/random-number-generator.cc
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "utils/random-number-generator.h"

 #include <cstdio>
+#include <cstdlib>

 #include "flags.h"
 #include "platform/mutex.h"
@@ -67,6 +68,16 @@ RandomNumberGenerator::RandomNumberGenerator() {
     }
   }

+#if V8_OS_CYGIN || V8_OS_WIN
+  // Use rand_s() to gather entropy on Windows. See:
+  // https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2905
+  unsigned first_half, second_half;
+  errno_t result = rand_s(&first_half);
+  ASSERT_EQ(0, result);
+  result = rand_s(&second_half);
+  ASSERT_EQ(0, result);
+  SetSeed((static_cast<int64_t>(first_half) << 32) + second_half);
+#else
   // Gather entropy from /dev/urandom if available.
   FILE* fp = fopen("/dev/urandom", "rb");
   if (fp != NULL) {
@@ -91,6 +102,7 @@ RandomNumberGenerator::RandomNumberGenerator() {
   seed ^= TimeTicks::HighResNow().ToInternalValue() << 16;
   seed ^= TimeTicks::Now().ToInternalValue() << 8;
   SetSeed(seed);
+#endif  // V8_OS_CYGWIN || V8_OS_WIN
 }


Index: tools/gyp/v8.gyp
diff --git a/tools/gyp/v8.gyp b/tools/gyp/v8.gyp
index 4f3d08fc6a9a4f14a9ea665f20c240e32545739e..1850c0e5f198477647e431e2ef9b790f578bb24c 100644
--- a/tools/gyp/v8.gyp
+++ b/tools/gyp/v8.gyp
@@ -805,6 +805,9 @@
           ]},
         ],
         ['OS=="win"', {
+          'defines': [
+            '_CRT_RAND_S'  # for rand_s()
+          ],
           'variables': {
             'gyp_generators': '<!(echo $GYP_GENERATORS)',
           },


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