From patchwork Tue Apr 19 11:16:44 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Jason A. Donenfeld" X-Patchwork-Id: 12817844 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C047C433F5 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1351067AbiDSLV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:21:29 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48858 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1351099AbiDSLVJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:21:09 -0400 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org (sin.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:40e1:4800::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AF162B25B; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E21B8CE17E2; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 276A9C385A8; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=zx2c4.com header.i=@zx2c4.com header.b="Ldnu4Oji" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zx2c4.com; s=20210105; t=1650367073; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=cpbrBqankh2fsmUUGS4FsleJ1lhokYXdTSW/sLYtQ34=; b=Ldnu4OjiD3v1jUOrfYxGQFZrjg0oNYKWJ3e/7hORW8QWnSc497Sokq8P0UYcAwTmJNdXVe db1/6m+aJLQr9pZyAeercJVnve99xewRNvQ65CDc3EgtdPI9uLgq+sTKam6VVLhk9MBlqZ 8TGHjvR1LqLvobusUQ3WebJw1tlxgWM= Received: by mail.zx2c4.com (ZX2C4 Mail Server) with ESMTPSA id 7231a252 (TLSv1.3:AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:17:53 +0000 (UTC) From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, arnd@arndb.de Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Theodore Ts'o , Dominik Brodowski , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Geert Uytterhoeven , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , "David S . Miller" , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "H . Peter Anvin" , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , Stephen Boyd , Dinh Nguyen , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org Subject: [PATCH v5 05/11] arm: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:16:44 +0200 Message-Id: <20220419111650.1582274-6-Jason@zx2c4.com> In-Reply-To: <20220419111650.1582274-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> References: <20220419111650.1582274-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all the time is better than returning zero all the time. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h index 7c3b3671d6c2..6d1337c169cd 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h @@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ typedef unsigned long cycles_t; #define get_cycles() ({ cycles_t c; read_current_timer(&c) ? 0 : c; }) +#define random_get_entropy() (((unsigned long)get_cycles()) ?: random_get_entropy_fallback()) #endif