From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: [PATCH RFC v1 08/10] um: use sched_clock() for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 20:21:43 +0200 Message-Id: <20220408182145.142506-9-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. This is accomplished by just including the asm-generic code like on other architectures, which means we can get rid of the empty stub function here. Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/um/include/asm/timex.h | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h index e392a9a5bc9b..9f27176adb26 100644 --- a/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/um/include/asm/timex.h @@ -2,13 +2,8 @@ #ifndef __UM_TIMEX_H #define __UM_TIMEX_H -typedef unsigned long cycles_t; - -static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void) -{ - return 0; -} - #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (HZ) +#include + #endif -- 2.35.1