From patchwork Tue Apr 12 17:27:48 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: 560095 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 E14FAC433F5 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229536AbiDLRe2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:34:28 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37968 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1358236AbiDLRcY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:32:24 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C5E4F46; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:29:51 -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 ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE746B81F62; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 469EBC385AA; Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=zx2c4.com header.i=@zx2c4.com header.b="Vof7oTMJ" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zx2c4.com; s=20210105; t=1649784584; 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=IHzRJmPvA7OgZjJx+ZTbqcYHIM/uCZIijqXsNo6FZ2U=; b=Vof7oTMJysi9826NZ4wlTUzj07MRSpSZZLRNThVcodnHpNfVYD9AbgGScQ4b9YIr68xe13 pllwAUZ1aN8ajP631O+A2iZ/DS5Ii+7ZBpv+IhUqlhiWGaqgjObm2n7g7XVrH8Qvn+P1S5 K9LhwsoVl2jT/V71ZNOjmtwbBy150So= Received: by mail.zx2c4.com (ZX2C4 Mail Server) with ESMTPSA id 8bae4d27 (TLSv1.3:AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:29:43 +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 , John Stultz , 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 v3 04/10] mips: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:27:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20220412172754.149498-5-Jason@zx2c4.com> In-Reply-To: <20220412172754.149498-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> References: <20220412172754.149498-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@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: Thomas Bogendoerfer Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h index b05bb70a2e46..abc60a6395e3 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void) else if (likely(imp != PRID_IMP_R6000 && imp != PRID_IMP_R6000A)) return read_c0_random(); else - return 0; /* no usable register */ + return random_get_entropy_fallback(); /* no usable register */ } #define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy