Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/random: Retry on RDSEED failure

[Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>]

On 1/30/24 12:30 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The function rdrand_long() retries 10 times before returning failure to
> the caller. On the other hand, rdseed_long() gives up on the first
> failure.
>
> According to the Intel SDM, both instructions should follow the same
> retry approach. This information can be found in the section titled
> "Random Number Generator Instructions".
>
> To align the behavior of rdseed_long() with rdrand_long(), it should be
> modified to retry 10 times before giving up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---

Change looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>

Wondering whether this needs to go to stable trees?

>  arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h
> index 02bae8e0758b..918c5880de9e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/archrandom.h
> @@ -33,11 +33,19 @@ static inline bool __must_check rdrand_long(unsigned long *v)
>  
>  static inline bool __must_check rdseed_long(unsigned long *v)
>  {
> +	unsigned int retry = RDRAND_RETRY_LOOPS;
>  	bool ok;
> -	asm volatile("rdseed %[out]"
> -		     CC_SET(c)
> -		     : CC_OUT(c) (ok), [out] "=r" (*v));
> -	return ok;
> +
> +	do {
> +		asm volatile("rdseed %[out]"
> +			     CC_SET(c)
> +			     : CC_OUT(c) (ok), [out] "=r" (*v));
> +
> +		if (ok)
> +			return true;
> +	} while (--retry);
> +
> +	return false;
>  }
>  
>  /*

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer