From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: [PATCH v5 07/11] x86: use fallback for random_get_entropy() instead of zero Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:16:46 +0200 Message-Id: <20220419111650.1582274-8-Jason@zx2c4.com> In-Reply-To: <20220419111650.1582274-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> References: <20220419111650.1582274-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, 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 , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "H . Peter Anvin" , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , Stephen Boyd , Dinh Nguyen , 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 random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually. It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() 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: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h index a4a8b1b16c0c..fac180359693 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h @@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ #include #include +static inline unsigned long random_get_entropy(void) +{ +#ifndef CONFIG_X86_TSC + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC)) + return random_get_entropy_fallback(); +#endif + return rdtsc(); +} +#define random_get_entropy random_get_entropy + /* Assume we use the PIT time source for the clock tick */ #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE PIT_TICK_RATE -- 2.35.1