[PATCH 3.16 36/72] hwrng: core - don't wait on add_early_randomness()

Ben Hutchings
2019-12-08T13:57:37Z

From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>

commit 78887832e76541f77169a24ac238fccb51059b63 upstream.

add_early_randomness() is called by hwrng_register() when the
hardware is added. If this hardware and its module are present
at boot, and if there is no data available the boot hangs until
data are available and can't be interrupted.

For instance, in the case of virtio-rng, in some cases the host can be
not able to provide enough entropy for all the guests.

We can have two easy ways to reproduce the problem but they rely on
misconfiguration of the hypervisor or the egd daemon:

- if virtio-rng device is configured to connect to the egd daemon of the
host but when the virtio-rng driver asks for data the daemon is not
connected,

- if virtio-rng device is configured to connect to the egd daemon of the
host but the egd daemon doesn't provide data.

The guest kernel will hang at boot until the virtio-rng driver provides
enough data.

To avoid that, call rng_get_data() in non-blocking mode (wait=0)
from add_early_randomness().

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Fixes: d9e797261933 ("hwrng: add randomness to system from rng...")
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void add_early_randomness(struct
int bytes_read;
size_t size = min_t(size_t, 16, rng_buffer_size());

- bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 1);
+ bytes_read = rng_get_data(rng, rng_buffer, size, 0);
if (bytes_read > 0)
add_device_randomness(rng_buffer, bytes_read);
}