Re: [PATCH] random: remove CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM and "nordrand"

H. Peter Anvin
2022-07-06T16:43:34Z

On July 6, 2022 5:23:31 AM PDT, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:11:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> What I'm wondering is if we shouldn't be simply instrument *every*
>> invocation, and set the trust to zero if we ever trip it.
>
>I guess you can add some logic to rdrand_long() to sanity-check what it
>returns...
>
>But would that be worth the effort?
>

I think doing it centrally, as non-arch-specific code, and letting it subsume ad hoc checks for known failure conditions could be a win.