From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: [PATCH RFC v1 04/10] mips: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 20:21:39 +0200 Message-Id: <20220408182145.142506-5-Jason@zx2c4.com> In-Reply-To: <20220408182145.142506-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> References: <20220408182145.142506-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Theodore Ts'o , Dominik Brodowski , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Geert Uytterhoeven , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , "David S . Miller" , Richard Weinberger , Anton Ivanov , Johannes Berg , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "H . Peter Anvin" , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , John Stultz , Stephen Boyd , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org List-ID: 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 Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h index b05bb70a2e46..1de8ded08bb7 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/timex.h @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include +#include #include #include @@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void) else if (likely(imp != PRID_IMP_R6000 && imp != PRID_IMP_R6000A)) return read_c0_random(); else - return 0; /* no usable register */ + return sched_clock(); /* no usable register */ } #define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy -- 2.35.1