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Jason A. Donenfeld 7690be1adf timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy() 
commit 1366992e16 upstream.

The addition of random_get_entropy_fallback() provides access to
whichever time source has the highest frequency, which is useful for
gathering entropy on platforms without available cycle counters. It's
not necessarily as good as being able to quickly access a cycle counter
that the CPU has, but it's still something, even when it falls back to
being jiffies-based.

In the event that a given arch does not define get_cycles(), falling
back to the get_cycles() default implementation that returns 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.

Finally, since random_get_entropy_fallback() is used during extremely
early boot when randomizing freelists in mm_init(), it can be called
before timekeeping has been initialized. In that case there really is
nothing we can do; jiffies hasn't even started ticking yet. So just give
up and return 0.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-30 09:33:41 +02:00
arch powerpc: define get_cycles macro for arch-override 2022-05-30 09:33:41 +02:00
block block-map: add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern 2022-05-12 12:25:45 +02:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:50:29 +02:00
crypto random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one 2022-05-30 09:33:38 +02:00
Documentation random: fix sysctl documentation nits 2022-05-30 09:33:40 +02:00
drivers random: document crng_fast_key_erasure() destination possibility 2022-05-30 09:33:40 +02:00
fs afs: Fix afs_getattr() to refetch file status if callback break occurred 2022-05-25 09:18:01 +02:00
include timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy() 2022-05-30 09:33:41 +02:00
init init: call time_init() before rand_initialize() 2022-05-30 09:33:40 +02:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:19:10 +01:00
kernel timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy() 2022-05-30 09:33:41 +02:00
lib random: replace custom notifier chain with standard one 2022-05-30 09:33:38 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm: userfaultfd: fix missing cache flush in mcopy_atomic_pte() and __mcopy_atomic() 2022-05-15 20:00:09 +02:00
net secure_seq: use the 64 bits of the siphash for port offset calculation 2022-05-30 09:33:23 +02:00
samples samples/bpf, xdpsock: Fix race when running for fix duration of time 2022-04-08 14:40:21 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom 2022-04-20 09:23:26 +02:00
security lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use 2022-05-30 09:33:22 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for TongFang devices with pop noise 2022-05-25 09:17:55 +02:00
tools selftests: add ping test with ping_group_range tuned 2022-05-25 09:18:00 +02:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-02-01 17:25:48 +01:00
virt KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are freed 2022-04-08 14:40:38 +02:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-05-19 10:12:59 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add two more addresses of Uwe Kleine-König 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add git tree for random.c 2022-05-30 09:33:24 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.10.118 2022-05-25 09:18:02 +02:00
README

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.