From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: exynos-rng - Remove exynos-rng driver
Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 10:59:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260531175932.32171-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
This driver has no purpose. It doesn't feed into the Linux RNG, nor
does it implement the hwrng interface. It is accessible only via the
"rng" algorithm type of AF_ALG, which isn't used in practice. Everyone
uses either the Linux RNG, or rarely /dev/hwrng.
Moreover, this is a PRNG whose only source of entropy is the 160-bit
seed the user passes in. So this can be used only by a user who already
has a source of cryptographically secure random numbers, such as
/dev/random. Which they can, and do, just use in the first place.
Just remove this driver. There's no need to keep useless code around.
Note that the other crypto_rng drivers in drivers/crypto/ are similarly
unused and are being removed too. This commit just handles exynos-rng.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
MAINTAINERS | 8 -
arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig | 1 -
arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig | 1 -
drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 18 --
drivers/crypto/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c | 399 ----------------------------
6 files changed, 428 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 882214b0e7db..a7f2762baac1 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -23701,18 +23701,10 @@ L: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
S: Supported
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mailbox/google,gs101-mbox.yaml
F: drivers/mailbox/exynos-mailbox.c
F: include/linux/mailbox/exynos-message.h
-SAMSUNG EXYNOS PSEUDO RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR (RNG) DRIVER
-M: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
-L: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
-L: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
-S: Maintained
-F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/samsung,exynos4-rng.yaml
-F: drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
-
SAMSUNG EXYNOS TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR (TRNG) DRIVER
M: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
L: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rng/samsung,exynos5250-trng.yaml
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
index 84070e9698e8..8b072a5c0a5e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/exynos_defconfig
@@ -362,11 +362,10 @@ CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_RNG=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM_BS=m
-CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_RNG=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_S5P=y
CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y
CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES=96
CONFIG_FONTS=y
CONFIG_FONT_7x14=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig
index bcc9aabc1202..3672dd12df60 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig
@@ -1327,11 +1327,10 @@ CONFIG_CRYPTO_GHASH_ARM_CE=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM_BS=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM_CE=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_SUN4I_SS=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM=m
-CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_RNG=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_S5P=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_AES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_TDES=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_SHA=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_MARVELL_CESA=m
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/Kconfig b/drivers/crypto/Kconfig
index 3449b3c9c6ad..39c7b195bb33 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/crypto/Kconfig
@@ -373,25 +373,10 @@ config CRYPTO_DEV_SAHARA
select CRYPTO_ENGINE
help
This option enables support for the SAHARA HW crypto accelerator
found in some Freescale i.MX chips.
-config CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_RNG
- tristate "Exynos HW pseudo random number generator support"
- depends on ARCH_EXYNOS || COMPILE_TEST
- depends on HAS_IOMEM
- select CRYPTO_RNG
- help
- This driver provides kernel-side support through the
- cryptographic API for the pseudo random number generator hardware
- found on Exynos SoCs.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called exynos-rng.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
-
config CRYPTO_DEV_S5P
tristate "Support for Samsung S5PV210/Exynos crypto accelerator"
depends on ARCH_S5PV210 || ARCH_EXYNOS || COMPILE_TEST
depends on HAS_IOMEM
select CRYPTO_AES
@@ -402,20 +387,17 @@ config CRYPTO_DEV_S5P
algorithms execution.
config CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_HASH
bool "Support for Samsung Exynos HASH accelerator"
depends on CRYPTO_DEV_S5P
- depends on !CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_RNG && CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_RNG!=m
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select CRYPTO_MD5
select CRYPTO_SHA256
help
Select this to offload Exynos from HASH MD5/SHA1/SHA256.
This will select software SHA1, MD5 and SHA256 as they are
needed for small and zero-size messages.
- HASH algorithms will be disabled if EXYNOS_RNG
- is enabled due to hw conflict.
config CRYPTO_DEV_NX
bool "Support for IBM PowerPC Nest (NX) cryptographic acceleration"
depends on PPC64
help
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/Makefile b/drivers/crypto/Makefile
index 283bbc650b5b..e141ab0dd741 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/crypto/Makefile
@@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_I2C) += atmel-i2c.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_ECC) += atmel-ecc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_ATMEL_SHA204A) += atmel-sha204a.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CCP) += ccp/
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CCREE) += ccree/
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CHELSIO) += chelsio/
-obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_EXYNOS_RNG) += exynos-rng.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_COMMON) += caam/
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_GEODE) += geode-aes.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X) += hifn_795x.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_IMGTEC_HASH) += img-hash.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_MARVELL) += marvell/
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c b/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 2aaa98f9b44e..000000000000
--- a/drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,399 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * exynos-rng.c - Random Number Generator driver for the Exynos
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2017 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
- *
- * Loosely based on old driver from drivers/char/hw_random/exynos-rng.c:
- * Copyright (C) 2012 Samsung Electronics
- * Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@samsung.com>
- */
-
-#include <linux/clk.h>
-#include <linux/crypto.h>
-#include <linux/err.h>
-#include <linux/io.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/of.h>
-#include <linux/platform_device.h>
-
-#include <crypto/internal/rng.h>
-
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_CONTROL 0x0
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS 0x10
-
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_CONF 0x14
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_GEN_PRNG BIT(1)
-
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_BASE 0x140
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_SEED(n) (EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_BASE + (n * 0x4))
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_OUT_BASE 0x160
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_OUT(n) (EXYNOS_RNG_OUT_BASE + (n * 0x4))
-
-/* EXYNOS_RNG_CONTROL bit fields */
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_CONTROL_START 0x18
-/* EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS bit fields */
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS_SEED_SETTING_DONE BIT(1)
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS_RNG_DONE BIT(5)
-
-/* Five seed and output registers, each 4 bytes */
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_REGS 5
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE (EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_REGS * 4)
-
-enum exynos_prng_type {
- EXYNOS_PRNG_UNKNOWN = 0,
- EXYNOS_PRNG_EXYNOS4,
- EXYNOS_PRNG_EXYNOS5,
-};
-
-/*
- * Driver re-seeds itself with generated random numbers to hinder
- * backtracking of the original seed.
- *
- * Time for next re-seed in ms.
- */
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_RESEED_TIME 1000
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_RESEED_BYTES 65536
-
-/*
- * In polling mode, do not wait infinitely for the engine to finish the work.
- */
-#define EXYNOS_RNG_WAIT_RETRIES 100
-
-/* Context for crypto */
-struct exynos_rng_ctx {
- struct exynos_rng_dev *rng;
-};
-
-/* Device associated memory */
-struct exynos_rng_dev {
- struct device *dev;
- enum exynos_prng_type type;
- void __iomem *mem;
- struct clk *clk;
- struct mutex lock;
- /* Generated numbers stored for seeding during resume */
- u8 seed_save[EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE];
- unsigned int seed_save_len;
- /* Time of last seeding in jiffies */
- unsigned long last_seeding;
- /* Bytes generated since last seeding */
- unsigned long bytes_seeding;
-};
-
-static struct exynos_rng_dev *exynos_rng_dev;
-
-static u32 exynos_rng_readl(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng, u32 offset)
-{
- return readl_relaxed(rng->mem + offset);
-}
-
-static void exynos_rng_writel(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng, u32 val, u32 offset)
-{
- writel_relaxed(val, rng->mem + offset);
-}
-
-static int exynos_rng_set_seed(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng,
- const u8 *seed, unsigned int slen)
-{
- u32 val;
- int i;
-
- /* Round seed length because loop iterates over full register size */
- slen = ALIGN_DOWN(slen, 4);
-
- if (slen < EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- for (i = 0; i < slen ; i += 4) {
- unsigned int seed_reg = (i / 4) % EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_REGS;
-
- val = seed[i] << 24;
- val |= seed[i + 1] << 16;
- val |= seed[i + 2] << 8;
- val |= seed[i + 3] << 0;
-
- exynos_rng_writel(rng, val, EXYNOS_RNG_SEED(seed_reg));
- }
-
- val = exynos_rng_readl(rng, EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS);
- if (!(val & EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS_SEED_SETTING_DONE)) {
- dev_warn(rng->dev, "Seed setting not finished\n");
- return -EIO;
- }
-
- rng->last_seeding = jiffies;
- rng->bytes_seeding = 0;
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * Start the engine and poll for finish. Then read from output registers
- * filling the 'dst' buffer up to 'dlen' bytes or up to size of generated
- * random data (EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE).
- *
- * On success: return 0 and store number of read bytes under 'read' address.
- * On error: return -ERRNO.
- */
-static int exynos_rng_get_random(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng,
- u8 *dst, unsigned int dlen,
- unsigned int *read)
-{
- int retry = EXYNOS_RNG_WAIT_RETRIES;
-
- if (rng->type == EXYNOS_PRNG_EXYNOS4) {
- exynos_rng_writel(rng, EXYNOS_RNG_CONTROL_START,
- EXYNOS_RNG_CONTROL);
- } else if (rng->type == EXYNOS_PRNG_EXYNOS5) {
- exynos_rng_writel(rng, EXYNOS_RNG_GEN_PRNG,
- EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_CONF);
- }
-
- while (!(exynos_rng_readl(rng,
- EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS) & EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS_RNG_DONE) && --retry)
- cpu_relax();
-
- if (!retry)
- return -ETIMEDOUT;
-
- /* Clear status bit */
- exynos_rng_writel(rng, EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS_RNG_DONE,
- EXYNOS_RNG_STATUS);
- *read = min_t(size_t, dlen, EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE);
- memcpy_fromio(dst, rng->mem + EXYNOS_RNG_OUT_BASE, *read);
- rng->bytes_seeding += *read;
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-/* Re-seed itself from time to time */
-static void exynos_rng_reseed(struct exynos_rng_dev *rng)
-{
- unsigned long next_seeding = rng->last_seeding + \
- msecs_to_jiffies(EXYNOS_RNG_RESEED_TIME);
- unsigned long now = jiffies;
- unsigned int read = 0;
- u8 seed[EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE];
-
- if (time_before(now, next_seeding) &&
- rng->bytes_seeding < EXYNOS_RNG_RESEED_BYTES)
- return;
-
- if (exynos_rng_get_random(rng, seed, sizeof(seed), &read))
- return;
-
- exynos_rng_set_seed(rng, seed, read);
-
- /* Let others do some of their job. */
- mutex_unlock(&rng->lock);
- mutex_lock(&rng->lock);
-}
-
-static int exynos_rng_generate(struct crypto_rng *tfm,
- const u8 *src, unsigned int slen,
- u8 *dst, unsigned int dlen)
-{
- struct exynos_rng_ctx *ctx = crypto_rng_ctx(tfm);
- struct exynos_rng_dev *rng = ctx->rng;
- unsigned int read = 0;
- int ret;
-
- ret = clk_prepare_enable(rng->clk);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- mutex_lock(&rng->lock);
- do {
- ret = exynos_rng_get_random(rng, dst, dlen, &read);
- if (ret)
- break;
-
- dlen -= read;
- dst += read;
-
- exynos_rng_reseed(rng);
- } while (dlen > 0);
- mutex_unlock(&rng->lock);
-
- clk_disable_unprepare(rng->clk);
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-static int exynos_rng_seed(struct crypto_rng *tfm, const u8 *seed,
- unsigned int slen)
-{
- struct exynos_rng_ctx *ctx = crypto_rng_ctx(tfm);
- struct exynos_rng_dev *rng = ctx->rng;
- int ret;
-
- ret = clk_prepare_enable(rng->clk);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- mutex_lock(&rng->lock);
- ret = exynos_rng_set_seed(ctx->rng, seed, slen);
- mutex_unlock(&rng->lock);
-
- clk_disable_unprepare(rng->clk);
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-static int exynos_rng_kcapi_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
-{
- struct exynos_rng_ctx *ctx = crypto_tfm_ctx(tfm);
-
- ctx->rng = exynos_rng_dev;
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-static struct rng_alg exynos_rng_alg = {
- .generate = exynos_rng_generate,
- .seed = exynos_rng_seed,
- .seedsize = EXYNOS_RNG_SEED_SIZE,
- .base = {
- .cra_name = "stdrng",
- .cra_driver_name = "exynos_rng",
- .cra_priority = 300,
- .cra_ctxsize = sizeof(struct exynos_rng_ctx),
- .cra_module = THIS_MODULE,
- .cra_init = exynos_rng_kcapi_init,
- }
-};
-
-static int exynos_rng_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
-{
- struct exynos_rng_dev *rng;
- int ret;
-
- if (exynos_rng_dev)
- return -EEXIST;
-
- rng = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*rng), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!rng)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- rng->type = (uintptr_t)of_device_get_match_data(&pdev->dev);
-
- mutex_init(&rng->lock);
-
- rng->dev = &pdev->dev;
- rng->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "secss");
- if (IS_ERR(rng->clk)) {
- dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Couldn't get clock.\n");
- return PTR_ERR(rng->clk);
- }
-
- rng->mem = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(rng->mem))
- return PTR_ERR(rng->mem);
-
- platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rng);
-
- exynos_rng_dev = rng;
-
- ret = crypto_register_rng(&exynos_rng_alg);
- if (ret) {
- dev_err(&pdev->dev,
- "Couldn't register rng crypto alg: %d\n", ret);
- exynos_rng_dev = NULL;
- }
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-static void exynos_rng_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
-{
- crypto_unregister_rng(&exynos_rng_alg);
-
- exynos_rng_dev = NULL;
-}
-
-static int __maybe_unused exynos_rng_suspend(struct device *dev)
-{
- struct exynos_rng_dev *rng = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- int ret;
-
- /* If we were never seeded then after resume it will be the same */
- if (!rng->last_seeding)
- return 0;
-
- rng->seed_save_len = 0;
- ret = clk_prepare_enable(rng->clk);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- mutex_lock(&rng->lock);
-
- /* Get new random numbers and store them for seeding on resume. */
- exynos_rng_get_random(rng, rng->seed_save, sizeof(rng->seed_save),
- &(rng->seed_save_len));
-
- mutex_unlock(&rng->lock);
-
- dev_dbg(rng->dev, "Stored %u bytes for seeding on system resume\n",
- rng->seed_save_len);
-
- clk_disable_unprepare(rng->clk);
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-static int __maybe_unused exynos_rng_resume(struct device *dev)
-{
- struct exynos_rng_dev *rng = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- int ret;
-
- /* Never seeded so nothing to do */
- if (!rng->last_seeding)
- return 0;
-
- ret = clk_prepare_enable(rng->clk);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- mutex_lock(&rng->lock);
-
- ret = exynos_rng_set_seed(rng, rng->seed_save, rng->seed_save_len);
-
- mutex_unlock(&rng->lock);
-
- clk_disable_unprepare(rng->clk);
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(exynos_rng_pm_ops, exynos_rng_suspend,
- exynos_rng_resume);
-
-static const struct of_device_id exynos_rng_dt_match[] = {
- {
- .compatible = "samsung,exynos4-rng",
- .data = (const void *)EXYNOS_PRNG_EXYNOS4,
- }, {
- .compatible = "samsung,exynos5250-prng",
- .data = (const void *)EXYNOS_PRNG_EXYNOS5,
- },
- { },
-};
-MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, exynos_rng_dt_match);
-
-static struct platform_driver exynos_rng_driver = {
- .driver = {
- .name = "exynos-rng",
- .pm = &exynos_rng_pm_ops,
- .of_match_table = exynos_rng_dt_match,
- },
- .probe = exynos_rng_probe,
- .remove = exynos_rng_remove,
-};
-
-module_platform_driver(exynos_rng_driver);
-
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Exynos H/W Random Number Generator driver");
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
base-commit: 5624ea54f3ba5c83d2e5503411a31a8be0278c1e
--
2.54.0
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