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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>
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2.2 KiB
C
67 lines
2.2 KiB
C
/*
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Hardware Random Number Generator
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Please read Documentation/admin-guide/hw_random.rst for details on use.
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----------------------------------------------------------
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This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
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of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
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*/
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#ifndef LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_
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#define LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_
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#include <linux/completion.h>
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#include <linux/types.h>
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#include <linux/list.h>
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#include <linux/kref.h>
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/**
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* struct hwrng - Hardware Random Number Generator driver
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* @name: Unique RNG name.
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* @init: Initialization callback (can be NULL).
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* @cleanup: Cleanup callback (can be NULL).
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* @data_present: Callback to determine if data is available
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* on the RNG. If NULL, it is assumed that
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* there is always data available. *OBSOLETE*
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* @data_read: Read data from the RNG device.
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* Returns the number of lower random bytes in "data".
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* Must not be NULL. *OBSOLETE*
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* @read: New API. drivers can fill up to max bytes of data
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* into the buffer. The buffer is aligned for any type
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* and max is a multiple of 4 and >= 32 bytes.
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* @priv: Private data, for use by the RNG driver.
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* @quality: Estimation of true entropy in RNG's bitstream
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* (in bits of entropy per 1024 bits of input;
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* valid values: 1 to 1024, or 0 for maximum).
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*/
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struct hwrng {
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const char *name;
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int (*init)(struct hwrng *rng);
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void (*cleanup)(struct hwrng *rng);
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int (*data_present)(struct hwrng *rng, int wait);
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int (*data_read)(struct hwrng *rng, u32 *data);
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int (*read)(struct hwrng *rng, void *data, size_t max, bool wait);
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unsigned long priv;
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unsigned short quality;
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/* internal. */
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struct list_head list;
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struct kref ref;
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struct completion cleanup_done;
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struct completion dying;
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};
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struct device;
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/** Register a new Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
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extern int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng);
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extern int devm_hwrng_register(struct device *dev, struct hwrng *rng);
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/** Unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
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extern void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng);
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extern void devm_hwrng_unregister(struct device *dve, struct hwrng *rng);
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extern long hwrng_msleep(struct hwrng *rng, unsigned int msecs);
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#endif /* LINUX_HWRANDOM_H_ */
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