@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT || 7 || guest checks this feature bit
|| || before enabling paravirtualized
|| || spinlock support.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+KVM_FEATURE_GET_RNG_SEED || 8 || host provides rng seed data via
+ || || MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
|| || per-cpu warps are expected in
|| || kvmclock.
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#define KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME 5
#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI 6
#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT 7
+#define KVM_FEATURE_GET_RNG_SEED 8
/* The last 8 bits are used to indicate how to interpret the flags field
* in pvclock structure. If no bits are set, all flags are ignored.
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
#define MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN 0x4b564d02
#define MSR_KVM_STEAL_TIME 0x4b564d03
#define MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN 0x4b564d04
+#define MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED 0x4b564d05
struct kvm_steal_time {
__u64 steal;
@@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
(1 << KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF) |
(1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI) |
(1 << KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT) |
- (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT);
+ (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT) |
+ (1 << KVM_FEATURE_GET_RNG_SEED);
if (sched_info_on())
entry->eax |= (1 << KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME);
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h>
#include <linux/pvclock_gtod.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include <trace/events/kvm.h>
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
@@ -2480,6 +2481,9 @@ int kvm_get_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 *pdata)
case MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN:
data = vcpu->arch.pv_eoi.msr_val;
break;
+ case MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED:
+ get_random_bytes(&data, sizeof(data));
+ break;
case MSR_IA32_P5_MC_ADDR:
case MSR_IA32_P5_MC_TYPE:
case MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP:
This adds a simple interface to allow a guest to request 64 bits of host nonblocking entropy. This is independent of virtio-rng for a couple of reasons: - It's intended to be usable during early boot, when a trivial synchronous interface is needed. - virtio-rng gives blocking entropy, and making guest boot wait for the host's /dev/random will cause problems. MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED is intended to provide 64 bits of best-effort cryptographically secure data for use as a seed. It provides no guarantee that the result contains any actual entropy. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt | 3 +++ arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 3 ++- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)