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1 /*	$OpenBSD: random.c,v 1.15 2005/11/30 07:51:02 otto Exp $ */
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30 
31 #include <sys/param.h>
32 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
33 #include <sys/time.h>
34 #include <fcntl.h>
35 #include <stdio.h>
36 #include <stdlib.h>
37 #include <unistd.h>
38 
39 /*
40  * random.c:
41  *
42  * An improved random number generation package.  In addition to the standard
43  * rand()/srand() like interface, this package also has a special state info
44  * interface.  The initstate() routine is called with a seed, an array of
45  * bytes, and a count of how many bytes are being passed in; this array is
46  * then initialized to contain information for random number generation with
47  * that much state information.  Good sizes for the amount of state
48  * information are 32, 64, 128, and 256 bytes.  The state can be switched by
49  * calling the setstate() routine with the same array as was initiallized
50  * with initstate().  By default, the package runs with 128 bytes of state
51  * information and generates far better random numbers than a linear
52  * congruential generator.  If the amount of state information is less than
53  * 32 bytes, a simple linear congruential R.N.G. is used.
54  *
55  * Internally, the state information is treated as an array of int32_t; the
56  * zeroeth element of the array is the type of R.N.G. being used (small
57  * integer); the remainder of the array is the state information for the
58  * R.N.G.  Thus, 32 bytes of state information will give 7 int32_ts worth of
59  * state information, which will allow a degree seven polynomial.  (Note:
60  * the zeroeth word of state information also has some other information
61  * stored in it -- see setstate() for details).
62  *
63  * The random number generation technique is a linear feedback shift register
64  * approach, employing trinomials (since there are fewer terms to sum up that
65  * way).  In this approach, the least significant bit of all the numbers in
66  * the state table will act as a linear feedback shift register, and will
67  * have period 2^deg - 1 (where deg is the degree of the polynomial being
68  * used, assuming that the polynomial is irreducible and primitive).  The
69  * higher order bits will have longer periods, since their values are also
70  * influenced by pseudo-random carries out of the lower bits.  The total
71  * period of the generator is approximately deg*(2**deg - 1); thus doubling
72  * the amount of state information has a vast influence on the period of the
73  * generator.  Note: the deg*(2**deg - 1) is an approximation only good for
74  * large deg, when the period of the shift register is the dominant factor.
75  * With deg equal to seven, the period is actually much longer than the
76  * 7*(2**7 - 1) predicted by this formula.
77  */
78 
79 /*
80  * For each of the currently supported random number generators, we have a
81  * break value on the amount of state information (you need at least this
82  * many bytes of state info to support this random number generator), a degree
83  * for the polynomial (actually a trinomial) that the R.N.G. is based on, and
84  * the separation between the two lower order coefficients of the trinomial.
85  */
86 #define	TYPE_0		0		/* linear congruential */
87 #define	BREAK_0		8
88 #define	DEG_0		0
89 #define	SEP_0		0
90 
91 #define	TYPE_1		1		/* x**7 + x**3 + 1 */
92 #define	BREAK_1		32
93 #define	DEG_1		7
94 #define	SEP_1		3
95 
96 #define	TYPE_2		2		/* x**15 + x + 1 */
97 #define	BREAK_2		64
98 #define	DEG_2		15
99 #define	SEP_2		1
100 
101 #define	TYPE_3		3		/* x**31 + x**3 + 1 */
102 #define	BREAK_3		128
103 #define	DEG_3		31
104 #define	SEP_3		3
105 
106 #define	TYPE_4		4		/* x**63 + x + 1 */
107 #define	BREAK_4		256
108 #define	DEG_4		63
109 #define	SEP_4		1
110 
111 /*
112  * Array versions of the above information to make code run faster --
113  * relies on fact that TYPE_i == i.
114  */
115 #define	MAX_TYPES	5		/* max number of types above */
116 
117 static int degrees[MAX_TYPES] =	{ DEG_0, DEG_1, DEG_2, DEG_3, DEG_4 };
118 static int seps [MAX_TYPES] =	{ SEP_0, SEP_1, SEP_2, SEP_3, SEP_4 };
119 
120 /*
121  * Initially, everything is set up as if from:
122  *
123  *	initstate(1, &randtbl, 128);
124  *
125  * Note that this initialization takes advantage of the fact that srandom()
126  * advances the front and rear pointers 10*rand_deg times, and hence the
127  * rear pointer which starts at 0 will also end up at zero; thus the zeroeth
128  * element of the state information, which contains info about the current
129  * position of the rear pointer is just
130  *
131  *	MAX_TYPES * (rptr - state) + TYPE_3 == TYPE_3.
132  */
133 
134 static int32_t randtbl[DEG_3 + 1] = {
135 	TYPE_3,
136 	0x991539b1, 0x16a5bce3, 0x6774a4cd, 0x3e01511e, 0x4e508aaa, 0x61048c05,
137 	0xf5500617, 0x846b7115, 0x6a19892c, 0x896a97af, 0xdb48f936, 0x14898454,
138 	0x37ffd106, 0xb58bff9c, 0x59e17104, 0xcf918a49, 0x09378c83, 0x52c7a471,
139 	0x8d293ea9, 0x1f4fc301, 0xc3db71be, 0x39b44e1c, 0xf8a44ef9, 0x4c8b80b1,
140 	0x19edc328, 0x87bf4bdd, 0xc9b240e5, 0xe9ee4b1b, 0x4382aee7, 0x535b6b41,
141 	0xf3bec5da,
142 };
143 
144 /*
145  * fptr and rptr are two pointers into the state info, a front and a rear
146  * pointer.  These two pointers are always rand_sep places aparts, as they
147  * cycle cyclically through the state information.  (Yes, this does mean we
148  * could get away with just one pointer, but the code for random() is more
149  * efficient this way).  The pointers are left positioned as they would be
150  * from the call
151  *
152  *	initstate(1, randtbl, 128);
153  *
154  * (The position of the rear pointer, rptr, is really 0 (as explained above
155  * in the initialization of randtbl) because the state table pointer is set
156  * to point to randtbl[1] (as explained below).
157  */
158 static int32_t *fptr = &randtbl[SEP_3 + 1];
159 static int32_t *rptr = &randtbl[1];
160 
161 /*
162  * The following things are the pointer to the state information table, the
163  * type of the current generator, the degree of the current polynomial being
164  * used, and the separation between the two pointers.  Note that for efficiency
165  * of random(), we remember the first location of the state information, not
166  * the zeroeth.  Hence it is valid to access state[-1], which is used to
167  * store the type of the R.N.G.  Also, we remember the last location, since
168  * this is more efficient than indexing every time to find the address of
169  * the last element to see if the front and rear pointers have wrapped.
170  */
171 static int32_t *state = &randtbl[1];
172 static int32_t *end_ptr = &randtbl[DEG_3 + 1];
173 static int rand_type = TYPE_3;
174 static int rand_deg = DEG_3;
175 static int rand_sep = SEP_3;
176 
177 /*
178  * srandom:
179  *
180  * Initialize the random number generator based on the given seed.  If the
181  * type is the trivial no-state-information type, just remember the seed.
182  * Otherwise, initializes state[] based on the given "seed" via a linear
183  * congruential generator.  Then, the pointers are set to known locations
184  * that are exactly rand_sep places apart.  Lastly, it cycles the state
185  * information a given number of times to get rid of any initial dependencies
186  * introduced by the L.C.R.N.G.  Note that the initialization of randtbl[]
187  * for default usage relies on values produced by this routine.
188  */
189 void
190 srandom(unsigned int x)
191 {
192 	int i;
193 	int32_t test;
194 	div_t val;
195 
196 	if (rand_type == TYPE_0)
197 		state[0] = x;
198 	else {
199 		state[0] = x;
200 		for (i = 1; i < rand_deg; i++) {
201 			/*
202 			 * Implement the following, without overflowing 31 bits:
203 			 *
204 			 *	state[i] = (16807 * state[i - 1]) % 2147483647;
205 			 *
206 			 *	2^31-1 (prime) = 2147483647 = 127773*16807+2836
207 			 */
208 			val = div(state[i-1], 127773);
209 			test = 16807 * val.rem - 2836 * val.quot;
210 			state[i] = test + (test < 0 ? 2147483647 : 0);
211 		}
212 		fptr = &state[rand_sep];
213 		rptr = &state[0];
214 		for (i = 0; i < 10 * rand_deg; i++)
215 			(void)random();
216 	}
217 }
218 
219 /*
220  * srandomdev:
221  *
222  * Many programs choose the seed value in a totally predictable manner.
223  * This often causes problems.  We seed the generator using random
224  * data from the kernel.
225  * Note that this particular seeding procedure can generate states
226  * which are impossible to reproduce by calling srandom() with any
227  * value, since the succeeding terms in the state buffer are no longer
228  * derived from the LC algorithm applied to a fixed seed.
229  */
230 void
231 srandomdev(void)
232 {
233 	int mib[2];
234 	size_t len;
235 
236 	if (rand_type == TYPE_0)
237 		len = sizeof(state[0]);
238 	else
239 		len = rand_deg * sizeof(state[0]);
240 
241 	mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
242 	mib[1] = KERN_ARND;
243 	sysctl(mib, 2, state, &len, NULL, 0);
244 
245 	if (rand_type != TYPE_0) {
246 		fptr = &state[rand_sep];
247 		rptr = &state[0];
248 	}
249 }
250 
251 /*
252  * initstate:
253  *
254  * Initialize the state information in the given array of n bytes for future
255  * random number generation.  Based on the number of bytes we are given, and
256  * the break values for the different R.N.G.'s, we choose the best (largest)
257  * one we can and set things up for it.  srandom() is then called to
258  * initialize the state information.
259  *
260  * Note that on return from srandom(), we set state[-1] to be the type
261  * multiplexed with the current value of the rear pointer; this is so
262  * successive calls to initstate() won't lose this information and will be
263  * able to restart with setstate().
264  *
265  * Note: the first thing we do is save the current state, if any, just like
266  * setstate() so that it doesn't matter when initstate is called.
267  *
268  * Returns a pointer to the old state.
269  */
270 char *
271 initstate(u_int seed, char *arg_state, size_t n)
272 {
273 	char *ostate = (char *)(&state[-1]);
274 
275 	if (rand_type == TYPE_0)
276 		state[-1] = rand_type;
277 	else
278 		state[-1] = MAX_TYPES * (rptr - state) + rand_type;
279 	if (n < BREAK_0)
280 		return(NULL);
281 	if (n < BREAK_1) {
282 		rand_type = TYPE_0;
283 		rand_deg = DEG_0;
284 		rand_sep = SEP_0;
285 	} else if (n < BREAK_2) {
286 		rand_type = TYPE_1;
287 		rand_deg = DEG_1;
288 		rand_sep = SEP_1;
289 	} else if (n < BREAK_3) {
290 		rand_type = TYPE_2;
291 		rand_deg = DEG_2;
292 		rand_sep = SEP_2;
293 	} else if (n < BREAK_4) {
294 		rand_type = TYPE_3;
295 		rand_deg = DEG_3;
296 		rand_sep = SEP_3;
297 	} else {
298 		rand_type = TYPE_4;
299 		rand_deg = DEG_4;
300 		rand_sep = SEP_4;
301 	}
302 	state = &(((int32_t *)arg_state)[1]);	/* first location */
303 	end_ptr = &state[rand_deg];	/* must set end_ptr before srandom */
304 	srandom(seed);
305 	if (rand_type == TYPE_0)
306 		state[-1] = rand_type;
307 	else
308 		state[-1] = MAX_TYPES*(rptr - state) + rand_type;
309 	return(ostate);
310 }
311 
312 /*
313  * setstate:
314  *
315  * Restore the state from the given state array.
316  *
317  * Note: it is important that we also remember the locations of the pointers
318  * in the current state information, and restore the locations of the pointers
319  * from the old state information.  This is done by multiplexing the pointer
320  * location into the zeroeth word of the state information.
321  *
322  * Note that due to the order in which things are done, it is OK to call
323  * setstate() with the same state as the current state.
324  *
325  * Returns a pointer to the old state information.
326  */
327 char *
328 setstate(const char *arg_state)
329 {
330 	int32_t *new_state = (int32_t *)arg_state;
331 	int32_t type = new_state[0] % MAX_TYPES;
332 	int32_t rear = new_state[0] / MAX_TYPES;
333 	char *ostate = (char *)(&state[-1]);
334 
335 	if (rand_type == TYPE_0)
336 		state[-1] = rand_type;
337 	else
338 		state[-1] = MAX_TYPES * (rptr - state) + rand_type;
339 	switch(type) {
340 	case TYPE_0:
341 	case TYPE_1:
342 	case TYPE_2:
343 	case TYPE_3:
344 	case TYPE_4:
345 		rand_type = type;
346 		rand_deg = degrees[type];
347 		rand_sep = seps[type];
348 		break;
349 	default:
350 		return(NULL);
351 	}
352 	state = &new_state[1];
353 	if (rand_type != TYPE_0) {
354 		rptr = &state[rear];
355 		fptr = &state[(rear + rand_sep) % rand_deg];
356 	}
357 	end_ptr = &state[rand_deg];		/* set end_ptr too */
358 	return(ostate);
359 }
360 
361 /*
362  * random:
363  *
364  * If we are using the trivial TYPE_0 R.N.G., just do the old linear
365  * congruential bit.  Otherwise, we do our fancy trinomial stuff, which is
366  * the same in all the other cases due to all the global variables that have
367  * been set up.  The basic operation is to add the number at the rear pointer
368  * into the one at the front pointer.  Then both pointers are advanced to
369  * the next location cyclically in the table.  The value returned is the sum
370  * generated, reduced to 31 bits by throwing away the "least random" low bit.
371  *
372  * Note: the code takes advantage of the fact that both the front and
373  * rear pointers can't wrap on the same call by not testing the rear
374  * pointer if the front one has wrapped.
375  *
376  * Returns a 31-bit random number.
377  */
378 long
379 random(void)
380 {
381 	int32_t i;
382 
383 	if (rand_type == TYPE_0)
384 		i = state[0] = (state[0] * 1103515245 + 12345) & 0x7fffffff;
385 	else {
386 		*fptr += *rptr;
387 		i = (*fptr >> 1) & 0x7fffffff;	/* chucking least random bit */
388 		if (++fptr >= end_ptr) {
389 			fptr = state;
390 			++rptr;
391 		} else if (++rptr >= end_ptr)
392 			rptr = state;
393 	}
394 	return((long)i);
395 }
396