Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] rng-builtin: add an RNG backend that uses qemu_guest_getrandom()

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 04:23:42PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Add a new RNG backend using QEMU builtin getrandom function.
> 
> It can be created with "-object rng-builtin".
> 
> This patch applies on top of
> "[PATCH v4 00/24] Add qemu_getrandom and ARMv8.5-RNG etc"
> Based-on: <20190506173353.32206-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org>

These 3 lines ought to be below the "---" since they're not
relevant once merged.

> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> ---
>  backends/Makefile.objs |  2 +-
>  backends/rng-builtin.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 backends/rng-builtin.c

qemu-options.hx has docs for each backend object type. We should
add rng-builtin there, and also perhaps update rng-random docs to
have it encourse use of rng-builtin by default instead.

The code itself looks good.

> 
> diff --git a/backends/Makefile.objs b/backends/Makefile.objs
> index ff619d31b461..8da4a508d97b 100644
> --- a/backends/Makefile.objs
> +++ b/backends/Makefile.objs
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -common-obj-y += rng.o rng-egd.o
> +common-obj-y += rng.o rng-egd.o rng-builtin.o
>  common-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += rng-random.o
>  
>  common-obj-$(CONFIG_TPM) += tpm.o
> diff --git a/backends/rng-builtin.c b/backends/rng-builtin.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..b1264b745407
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/backends/rng-builtin.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
> +/*
> + * QEMU Builtin Random Number Generator Backend
> + *
> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
> + * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
> + */
> +
> +#include "qemu/osdep.h"
> +#include "sysemu/rng.h"
> +#include "qapi/error.h"
> +#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
> +#include "qemu/main-loop.h"
> +#include "qemu/guest-random.h"
> +
> +#define TYPE_RNG_BUILTIN "rng-builtin"
> +#define RNG_BUILTIN(obj) OBJECT_CHECK(RngBuiltin, (obj), TYPE_RNG_BUILTIN)
> +
> +typedef struct RngBuiltin {
> +    RngBackend parent;
> +} RngBuiltin;
> +
> +static void rng_builtin_request_entropy(RngBackend *b, RngRequest *req)
> +{
> +    RngBuiltin *s = RNG_BUILTIN(b);
> +
> +    while (!QSIMPLEQ_EMPTY(&s->parent.requests)) {
> +        RngRequest *req = QSIMPLEQ_FIRST(&s->parent.requests);
> +
> +        qemu_guest_getrandom_nofail(req->data, req->size);
> +
> +        req->receive_entropy(req->opaque, req->data, req->size);
> +
> +        rng_backend_finalize_request(&s->parent, req);
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +static void rng_builtin_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
> +{
> +    RngBackendClass *rbc = RNG_BACKEND_CLASS(klass);
> +
> +    rbc->request_entropy = rng_builtin_request_entropy;
> +}
> +
> +static const TypeInfo rng_builtin_info = {
> +    .name = TYPE_RNG_BUILTIN,
> +    .parent = TYPE_RNG_BACKEND,
> +    .instance_size = sizeof(RngBuiltin),
> +    .class_init = rng_builtin_class_init,
> +};
> +
> +static void register_types(void)
> +{
> +    type_register_static(&rng_builtin_info);
> +}
> +
> +type_init(register_types);
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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