drbg: ensure fork-safety without using a pthread_atfork handler
When the new OpenSSL CSPRNG was introduced in version 1.1.1, it was announced in the release notes that it would be fork-safe, which the old CSPRNG hadn't been. The fork-safety was implemented using a fork count, which was incremented by a pthread_atfork handler. Initially, this handler was enabled by default. Unfortunately, the default behaviour had to be changed for other reasons in commit b5319bdb , so the new OpenSSL CSPRNG failed to keep its promise. This commit restores the fork-safety using a different approach. It replaces the fork count by a fork id, which coincides with the process id on UNIX-like operating systems and is zero on other operating systems. It is used to detect when an automatic reseed after a fork is necessary. To prevent a future regression, it also adds a test to verify that the child reseeds after fork. CVE-2019-1549 Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9802)
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