[PATCH v4 1/1] crypto: atmel-sha204a - fix non-blocking read logic

Lothar Rubusch
2026-04-26T15:49:58Z

The blocking and non-blocking paths were failing to provide valid entropy
due to improper buffer management. Read the buffer starting from bit 1,
only fetch the 32 bytes of random data of the return message.

Tested on a Atmel SHA204a device.

Before (here for blocking) tests showed repeadetly reading reduced bytes of
entropy:
$ head -c 32 /dev/hwrng | hexdump -C
00000000 02 28 85 b3 47 40 f2 ee 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.(..G@..........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020

After, the result will be similar to the following:
$ head -c 32 /dev/hwrng | hexdump -C
00000000 5a fc 3f 13 14 68 fe 06 68 0a bd 04 83 6e 09 69 |Z.?..h..h....n.i|
00000010 75 ff cf 87 10 84 3b c9 c1 df ae eb 45 53 4c c3 |u.....;.....ESL.|
00000020

Fixes: da001fb651b0 ("crypto: atmel-i2c - add support for SHA204A random number generator")
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lothar Rubusch <l.rubusch@gmail.com>
---
drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
index dbb39ed0cea1..39a229086a84 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-sha204a.c
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ static int atmel_sha204a_rng_read_nonblocking(struct hwrng *rng, void *data,

if (rng->priv) {
work_data = (struct atmel_i2c_work_data *)rng->priv;
- max = min(sizeof(work_data->cmd.data), max);
- memcpy(data, &work_data->cmd.data, max);
+ max = min(RANDOM_RSP_SIZE - CMD_OVERHEAD_SIZE, max);
+ memcpy(data, &work_data->cmd.data[1], max);
rng->priv = 0;
} else {
work_data = kmalloc_obj(*work_data, GFP_ATOMIC);
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ static int atmel_sha204a_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max,
if (ret)
return ret;

- max = min(sizeof(cmd.data), max);
- memcpy(data, cmd.data, max);
+ max = min(RANDOM_RSP_SIZE - CMD_OVERHEAD_SIZE, max);
+ memcpy(data, &cmd.data[1], max);

return max;
}
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2.39.5