From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: [PATCH RFC v1 06/10] x86: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 20:21:41 +0200 Message-Id: <20220408182145.142506-7-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. If CONFIG_X86_TSC=n, then it's possible that we're running on a 486 with no RDTSC, so we only need the fallback code for that case. Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h index 01a300a9700b..b0c0b2b9e0f7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #ifndef _ASM_X86_TSC_H #define _ASM_X86_TSC_H +#include #include #include @@ -28,6 +29,16 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles(void) return rdtsc(); } +static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void) +{ +#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC)) + return sched_clock(); +#endif + return rdtsc(); +} +#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy + extern struct system_counterval_t convert_art_to_tsc(u64 art); extern struct system_counterval_t convert_art_ns_to_tsc(u64 art_ns); -- 2.35.1