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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: [PATCH RFC v1 03/10] riscv: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2022 20:21:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220408182145.142506-4-Jason@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220408182145.142506-1-Jason@zx2c4.com>

In the event that random_get_entropy() can't access a cycle counter or
similar, falling back to returning 0 is really not the best we can do.
Instead, at least calling sched_clock() would be preferable, because
that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies
eventually. It's not as though sched_clock() is super high precision or
guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all
the time is better than returning zero all the time.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
index 507cae273bc6..5b802755ca3a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/timex.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #define _ASM_RISCV_TIMEX_H
 
 #include <asm/csr.h>
+#include <linux/sched/clock.h>
 
 typedef unsigned long cycles_t;
 
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ static inline u32 get_cycles_hi(void)
 static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void)
 {
 	if (unlikely(clint_time_val == NULL))
-		return 0;
+		return sched_clock();
 	return get_cycles();
 }
 #define random_get_entropy()	random_get_entropy()
-- 
2.35.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-08 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-08 18:21 [PATCH RFC v1 00/10] archs/random: fallback to using sched_clock() if no cycle counter Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 01/10] random: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() if no get_cycles() Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 02/10] m68k: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 04/10] mips: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 05/10] arm: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 06/10] x86: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 07/10] arm64: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:33   ` Mark Rutland
2022-04-08 18:40     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 08/10] um: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 09/10] sparc: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-08 18:21 ` [PATCH RFC v1 10/10] xtensa: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-09 23:29 ` [PATCH RFC v1 00/10] archs/random: fallback to using sched_clock() if no cycle counter Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-10 14:25   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-10 20:57     ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-04-10 21:38       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-04-10 23:03 ` Eric Biggers
2022-04-10 23:29   ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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