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[v2,09/11] um: use ktime_read_raw_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero

Message ID 20220410214951.55294-10-Jason@zx2c4.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series archs/random: fallback to using ktime_read_raw_clock() if no cycle counter | expand

Commit Message

Jason A. Donenfeld April 10, 2022, 9:49 p.m. UTC 
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 ktime_read_raw_clock() would be preferable,
because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to
jiffies eventually. It's not as though ktime_read_raw_clock() 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.

This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on
other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub
function here.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
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 arch/um/include/asm/timex.h | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h
index e392a9a5bc9b..9f27176adb26 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -2,13 +2,8 @@ 
 #ifndef __UM_TIMEX_H
 #define __UM_TIMEX_H
 
-typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
-
-static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
 #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (HZ)
 
+#include <asm-generic/timex.h>
+
 #endif