Most hw_random devices return entropy which is assumed to be of full
quality, but driver authors don't bother setting the quality knob. Some
hw_random devices return less than full quality entropy, and then driver
authors set the quality knob. Therefore, the entropy crediting should be
opt-out rather than opt-in per-driver, to reflect the actual reality on
the ground.
For example, the two Raspberry Pi RNG drivers produce full entropy
randomness, and both EDK2 and U-Boot's drivers for these treat them as
such. The result is that EFI then uses these numbers and passes the to
Linux, and Linux credits them as boot, thereby initializing the RNG.
Yet, in Linux, the quality knob was never set to anything, and so on the
chance that Linux is booted without EFI, nothing is ever credited.
That's annoying.
The same pattern appears to repeat itself throughout various drivers. In
fact, very very few drivers have bothered setting quality=1024.
Looking at the git history of existing drivers and corresponding mailing
list discussion, this conclusion tracks. There's been a decent amount of
discussion about drivers that set quality < 1024 -- somebody read and
interepreted a datasheet, or made some back of the envelope calculation
somehow. But there's been very little, if any, discussion about most
drivers where the quality is just set to 1024 or unset (or set to 1000
when the authors misunderstood the API and assumed it was base-10 rather
than base-2); in both cases the intent was fairly clear of, "this is a
hardware random device; it's fine."
So let's invert this logic. A hw_random struct's quality knob now
controls the maximum quality a driver can produce, or 0 to specify 1024.
Then, the module-wide switch called "default_quality" is changed to
represent the maximum quality of any driver. By default it's 1024, and
the quality of any particular driver is then given by:
min(default_quality, rng->quality ?: 1024);
This way, the user can still turn this off for weird reasons (and we can
replace whatever driver-specific disabling hacks existed in the past),
yet we get proper crediting for relevant RNGs.
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
There are two deadlock scenarios that need addressing, which cause
problems when the computer goes to sleep, the interface is set down, and
hwrng_unregister() is called. When the deadlock is hit, sleep is delayed
for tens of seconds, causing it to fail. These scenarios are:
1) The hwrng kthread can't be stopped while it's sleeping, because it
uses msleep_interruptible() which does not react to kthread_stop.
2) A normal user thread can't be interrupted by hwrng_unregister() while
it's sleeping, because hwrng_unregister() is called from elsewhere.
We solve both issues by add a completion object called dying that
fulfils waiters once we have started the process in hwrng_unregister.
At the same time, we should cleanup a common and useless dmesg splat
in the same area.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Gregory Erwin <gregerwin256@gmail.com>
Fixes: fcd09c90c3 ("ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAO+Okf6ZJC5-nTE_EJUGQtd8JiCkiEHytGgDsFGTEjs0c00giw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO+Okf5k+C+SE6pMVfPf-d8MfVPVq4PO7EY8Hys_DVXtent3HA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75138
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
add_hwgenerator_randomness() is a function implemented and documented
inside of random.c. It is the way that hardware RNGs push data into it.
Therefore, it should be declared in random.h. Otherwise sparse complains
with:
random.c:1137:6: warning: symbol 'add_hwgenerator_randomness' was not declared. Should it be static?
The alternative would be to include hw_random.h into random.c, but that
wouldn't really be good for anything except slowing down compile time.
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
We've been using a flurry of int, unsigned int, size_t, and ssize_t.
Let's unify all of this into size_t where it makes sense, as it does in
most places, and leave ssize_t for return values with possible errors.
In addition, keeping with the convention of other functions in this
file, functions that are dealing with raw bytes now take void *
consistently instead of a mix of that and u8 *, because much of the time
we're actually passing some other structure that is then interpreted as
bytes by the function.
We also take the opportunity to fix the outdated and incorrect comment
in get_random_bytes_arch().
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).
Move them to the admin guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
quality field is currently documented as being 'per mill'. In fact the
math involved is:
add_hwgenerator_randomness((void *)rng_fillbuf, rc,
rc * current_quality * 8 >> 10);
thus the actual definition is "bits of entropy per 1024 bits of input".
The current documentation seems to have confused multiple people
in the past, let's fix the documentation to match code.
An alternative is to change core to match driver expectations, replacing
rc * current_quality * 8 >> 10
with
rc * current_quality / 1000
but that has performance costs, so probably isn't a good option.
Fixes: 0f734e6e76 ("hwrng: add per-device entropy derating")
Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
As hw_random core calls ->read with max > 32 or more, make it explicit.
Also remove checks involving 'max' being less than 8.
Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Currently, very few RNG drivers support single byte reads using the
->read() interface. Of the 14 drivers in drivers/char/hw_random that
support this interface only three of these actually support max == 1.
The other behaviours vary between return 0, return 2, return 4 and return
-EIO).
This is not a problem in practice because the core hw_random code never
performs a read shorter than 16 bytes. The documentation for this function
already contrains the alignment of the buffer pointer, so let's also
guarantee that the buffer is at least as large as its alignment.
This constraint is intended to be the weakest guarantee neccessary to
allow driver writers to safely simplify their code.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This change adds devm_hwrng_register and devm_hwrng_unregister which
use can simplify error unwinding and unbinding code paths in device
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
There is no point in doing a manual completion for cleanup_done
when struct completion fits in perfectly.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The previous patch added one potential problem: we can still be
reading from a hwrng when it's unregistered. Add a wait for zero
in the hwrng_unregister path.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
current_rng holds one reference, and we bump it every time we want
to do a read from it.
This means we only hold the rng_mutex to grab or drop a reference,
so accessing /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_current doesn't
block on read of /dev/hwrng.
Using a kref is overkill (we're always under the rng_mutex), but
a standard pattern.
This also solves the problem that the hwrng_fillfn thread was
accessing current_rng without a lock, which could change (eg. to NULL)
underneath it.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
This patch introduces a derating factor to struct hwrng for
the random bits going into the kernel input pool, and a common
default derating for drivers which do not specify one.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch adds an interface to the random pool for feeding entropy
in-kernel.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch implements a new method by which hw_random hardware drivers
can pass data to the core more efficiently, using a shared buffer.
The old methods have been retained as a compatability layer until all the
drivers have been updated.
Signed-off-by: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in
linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor
test.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device
semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from
concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be
too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but
before it happened, we had introduced the functions
device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow
drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some
drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary,
it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the
normal device unregistration instead.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make it possible to unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator
device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Handle waiting for new random within the drivers themselves, this allows to
use better suited timeouts for the individual rngs.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Jason A. Donenfeld