seedrng: avoid needless runtime strlen() call

- Avoid needless runtime strlen() call, bloating binary.
- Replace failed seed string with series of nulls.

function                                             old     new   delta
.rodata                                           108350  108338     -12
static.seedrng_prefix                                 26       -     -26
seedrng_main                                        1000     948     -52
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(add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-90)             Total: -90 bytes
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
 975919	   4227	   1816	 981962	  efbca	busybox_old
 975829	   4227	   1816	 981872	  efb70	busybox_unstripped

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/util-linux/seedrng.c b/util-linux/seedrng.c
index 49b9ab54b..5735dc059 100644
--- a/util-linux/seedrng.c
+++ b/util-linux/seedrng.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  */
 
 //config:config SEEDRNG
-//config:       bool "seedrng (2.1 kb)"
+//config:       bool "seedrng (2 kb)"
 //config:       default y
 //config:       help
 //config:       Seed the kernel RNG from seed files, meant to be called
@@ -173,8 +173,6 @@ static int seed_from_file_if_exists(const char *filename, int dfd, bool credit,
 int seedrng_main(int argc, char *argv[]) MAIN_EXTERNALLY_VISIBLE;
 int seedrng_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char *argv[])
 {
-        static const char seedrng_prefix[] = "SeedRNG v1 Old+New Prefix";
-        static const char seedrng_failure[] = "SeedRNG v1 No New Seed Failure";
         char *seed_dir, *creditable_seed, *non_creditable_seed;
         int ret, fd = -1, dfd = -1, program_ret = 0;
         uint8_t new_seed[MAX_SEED_LEN];
@@ -218,7 +216,7 @@ int seedrng_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char *argv[])
         }
 
         sha256_begin(&hash);
-        sha256_hash(&hash, seedrng_prefix, strlen(seedrng_prefix));
+        sha256_hash(&hash, "SeedRNG v1 Old+New Prefix", 25);
         clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &timestamp);
         sha256_hash(&hash, &timestamp, sizeof(timestamp));
         clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &timestamp);
@@ -236,7 +234,7 @@ int seedrng_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char *argv[])
         if (ret < 0) {
                 bb_simple_perror_msg("unable to read new seed");
                 new_seed_len = SHA256_OUTSIZE;
-                strncpy((char *)new_seed, seedrng_failure, new_seed_len);
+                memset(new_seed, 0, SHA256_OUTSIZE);
                 program_ret |= 1 << 3;
         }
         sha256_hash(&hash, &new_seed_len, sizeof(new_seed_len));