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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] arm64: Use v8.5-RNG entropy for KASLR seed
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:44:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200108174421.GD4036@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9265OuGrkdH=Mp_Ef+6h5Y8mdvATd-TrTXN_wUawsUBA@mail.gmail.com>


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On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 06:38:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 19:38, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > +               if ((ftr >> ID_AA64ISAR0_RNDR_SHIFT) & 0xf) {
> > +                       if (__arm64_rndr(&raw))
> > +                               seed += raw;

> Using addition rather than xor to combine seeds is slightly
> unidiomatic, so if you are doing this for a specific reason, it would
> be good to mention it.

No particular reason.

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-08 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 18:35 [PATCH v8 0/3] ARMv8.5-RNG support Mark Brown
2020-01-07 18:35 ` [PATCH v8 1/3] arm64: Implement archrandom.h for ARMv8.5-RNG Mark Brown
2020-01-08 17:18   ` Mark Rutland
2020-01-07 18:35 ` [PATCH v8 2/3] arm64: random: Add data to pool from setup_arch() Mark Brown
2020-01-08 17:20   ` Mark Rutland
2020-01-08 17:36     ` Mark Brown
2020-01-07 18:35 ` [PATCH v8 3/3] arm64: Use v8.5-RNG entropy for KASLR seed Mark Brown
2020-01-08 17:21   ` Mark Rutland
2020-01-08 17:38   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-01-08 17:44     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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