Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] arm64: Add support for SMCCC TRNG entropy source

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On 2020-11-05 14:34, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 15:30, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:04:57PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 15:03, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 01:41:42PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 12:56:55PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> 
>> > > That said, I'm not sure it's great to plumb this under the
>> > > arch_get_random*() interfaces, e.g. given this measn that
>> > > add_interrupt_randomness() will end up trapping to the host all the time
>> > > when it calls arch_get_random_seed_long().
>> >
>> > As it turns out, add_interrupt_randomness() isn't actually used on ARM.
>> 
>> It's certainly called on arm64, per a warning I just hacked in:
>> 
>> [    1.083802] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [    1.084802] add_interrupt_randomness called
>> [    1.085685] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at drivers/char/random.c:1267 
>> add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
>> [    1.087599] Modules linked in:
>> [    1.088258] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 
>> 5.10.0-rc2-dirty #13
>> [    1.089672] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
>> [    1.090659] pstate: 60400085 (nZCv daIf +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
>> [    1.091910] pc : add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
>> [    1.092965] lr : add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
>> [    1.094021] sp : ffff80001000be80
>> [    1.094732] x29: ffff80001000be80 x28: ffff2d0c80209840
>> [    1.095859] x27: 00000000137c3e3a x26: ffff8000100abdd0
>> [    1.096978] x25: 0000000000000035 x24: ffff67918bda8000
>> [    1.098100] x23: ffffc57c31923fe8 x22: 00000000fffedc14
>> [    1.099224] x21: ffff2d0dbef796a0 x20: ffffc57c331d16a0
>> [    1.100339] x19: ffffc57c33720a48 x18: 0000000000000010
>> [    1.101459] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000002
>> [    1.102578] x15: 00000000000000e7 x14: ffff80001000bb20
>> [    1.103706] x13: 00000000ffffffea x12: ffffc57c337b56e8
>> [    1.104821] x11: 0000000000000003 x10: ffffc57c3379d6a8
>> [    1.105944] x9 : ffffc57c3379d700 x8 : 0000000000017fe8
>> [    1.107073] x7 : c0000000ffffefff x6 : 0000000000000001
>> [    1.108186] x5 : 0000000000057fa8 x4 : 0000000000000000
>> [    1.109305] x3 : 00000000ffffffff x2 : ffffc57c337455d0
>> [    1.110428] x1 : db8dc9c2a1e0f600 x0 : 0000000000000000
>> [    1.111552] Call trace:
>> [    1.112083]  add_interrupt_randomness+0x2e8/0x318
>> [    1.113074]  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x90
>> [    1.114016]  handle_irq_event+0x48/0xf8
>> [    1.114826]  handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa4/0x130
>> [    1.115689]  generic_handle_irq+0x30/0x48
>> [    1.116528]  __handle_domain_irq+0x64/0xc0
>> [    1.117392]  gic_handle_irq+0xc0/0x138
>> [    1.118194]  el1_irq+0xbc/0x180
>> [    1.118870]  arch_cpu_idle+0x20/0x30
>> [    1.119630]  default_idle_call+0x8c/0x350
>> [    1.120479]  do_idle+0x224/0x298
>> [    1.121163]  cpu_startup_entry+0x28/0x70
>> [    1.121994]  secondary_start_kernel+0x184/0x198
>> 
>> ... and I couldn't immediately spot why 32-bit arm  would be 
>> different.
>> 
> 
> Hmm, I actually meant both arm64 and ARM.
> 
> Marc looked into this at my request a while ago, and I had a look
> myself as well at the time, and IIRC, we both concluded that we don't
> hit that code path. Darn.

Yes, I remember checking this. Obviously, I need a new pair of 
glasses...

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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