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+// Copyright 2018 Developers of the Rand project.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+//! Helper functions to read from a random device such as `/dev/urandom`.
+//!
+//! All instances use a single internal file handle, to prevent possible
+//! exhaustion of file descriptors.
+use rand_core::{Error, ErrorKind};
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io;
+use std::io::Read;
+use std::sync::{Once, Mutex, ONCE_INIT};
+
+// TODO: remove outer Option when `Mutex::new(None)` is a constant expression
+static mut READ_RNG_FILE: Option<Mutex<Option<File>>> = None;
+static READ_RNG_ONCE: Once = ONCE_INIT;
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+pub fn open<F>(path: &'static str, open_fn: F) -> Result<(), Error>
+ where F: Fn(&'static str) -> Result<File, io::Error>
+{
+ READ_RNG_ONCE.call_once(|| {
+ unsafe { READ_RNG_FILE = Some(Mutex::new(None)) }
+ });
+
+ // We try opening the file outside the `call_once` fn because we cannot
+ // clone the error, thus we must retry on failure.
+
+ let mutex = unsafe { READ_RNG_FILE.as_ref().unwrap() };
+ let mut guard = mutex.lock().unwrap();
+ if (*guard).is_none() {
+ info!("OsRng: opening random device {}", path);
+ let file = open_fn(path).map_err(map_err)?;
+ *guard = Some(file);
+ };
+ Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn read(dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+ // We expect this function only to be used after `random_device::open`
+ // was succesful. Therefore we can assume that our memory was set with a
+ // valid object.
+ let mutex = unsafe { READ_RNG_FILE.as_ref().unwrap() };
+ let mut guard = mutex.lock().unwrap();
+ let file = (*guard).as_mut().unwrap();
+
+ // Use `std::io::read_exact`, which retries on `ErrorKind::Interrupted`.
+ file.read_exact(dest).map_err(|err| {
+ Error::with_cause(ErrorKind::Unavailable,
+ "error reading random device", err)
+ })
+
+}
+
+pub fn map_err(err: io::Error) -> Error {
+ match err.kind() {
+ io::ErrorKind::Interrupted =>
+ Error::new(ErrorKind::Transient, "interrupted"),
+ io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock =>
+ Error::with_cause(ErrorKind::NotReady,
+ "OS RNG not yet seeded", err),
+ _ => Error::with_cause(ErrorKind::Unavailable,
+ "error while opening random device", err)
+ }
+}