From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: [PATCH RFC v1 07/10] arm64: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 20:21:42 +0200 Message-Id: <20220408182145.142506-8-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_ARM_ARCH_TIMER=n, then get_cycles() will return 0, so we only need the fallback code for that case. Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h index cf59ce91b22d..bfebd2e1ce45 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/timex.h @@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ */ #define get_cycles() arch_timer_read_counter() +#ifndef CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER +/* + * The default implementation of random_get_entropy() calls get_cycles(), + * which will return 0 if CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER=n, so we fall back to + * sched_clock() here. Not a great situation, but better than nothing. + */ +#define random_get_entropy() ((unsigned long)sched_clock()) +#endif + #include #endif -- 2.35.1