public inbox for kvm@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH v2 0/5] random,x86,kvm: Add and use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED
@ 2014-07-16 17:45 Andy Lutomirski
  2014-07-16 17:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86,kvm: Add MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED and a matching feature bit Andy Lutomirski
                   ` (5 more replies)
  0 siblings, 6 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Andy Lutomirski @ 2014-07-16 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm, H. Peter Anvin, Theodore Ts'o, linux-kernel, Kees Cook,
	x86
  Cc: Daniel Borkmann, Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Raghavendra K T,
	Gleb Natapov, Paolo Bonzini, Andy Lutomirski

virtio-rng is both too complicated and insufficient for initial rng
seeding.  It's far too complicated to use for KASLR or any other
early boot random number needs.  It also provides /dev/random-style
bits, which means that making guest boot wait for virtio-rng is
unacceptably slow, and doing it asynchronously means that
/dev/urandom might be predictable when userspace starts.

This introduces a very simple synchronous mechanism to get
/dev/urandom-style bits.

I sent the corresponding kvm-unit-tests and qemu changes separately.

There's room for bikeshedding on the same arch_get_slow_rng_u64.  I
considered arch_get_rng_seed_u64, but that could be confused with
arch_get_random_seed_long, which is not interchangeable.

Changes from v1:
 - Split patches 2 and 3
 - Log all arch sources in init_std_data
 - Fix the 32-bit kaslr build

Andy Lutomirski (5):
  x86,kvm: Add MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED and a matching feature bit
  random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64
  random: Seed pools from arch_get_slow_rng_u64 at startup
  random: Log how many bits we managed to seed with in init_std_data
  x86,kaslr: Use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED for KASLR if available

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt  |  3 +++
 arch/x86/Kconfig                     |  4 ++++
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c      | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/archslowrng.h   | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h     | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   |  4 ++++
 drivers/char/random.c                | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/random.h               |  9 +++++++++
 11 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/archslowrng.h

-- 
1.9.3


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2014-07-16 18:16 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2014-07-16 17:45 [PATCH v2 0/5] random,x86,kvm: Add and use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-16 17:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86,kvm: Add MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED and a matching feature bit Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-16 17:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64 Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-16 17:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] random: Seed pools from arch_get_slow_rng_u64 at startup Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-16 17:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] random: Log how many bits we managed to seed with in init_std_data Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-16 17:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] x86,kaslr: Use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED for KASLR if available Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-16 18:02 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] random,x86,kvm: Add and use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED Bandan Das
2014-07-16 18:16   ` Andy Lutomirski

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox