Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] arm64: kexec_file: add rng-seed support

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri Jun 28 2019 - 05:42:59 EST


On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:33:02PM +0800, Hsin-Yi Wang wrote:
> Adding "rng-seed" to dtb. It's fine to add this property if original
> fdt doesn't contain it. Since original seed will be wiped after
> read, so use a default size 128 bytes here.

Why is 128 bytes the default value?

I didn't see an update to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt,
so it's not clear to me precisely what we expect.

>
> Signed-off-by: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> change log v5->v6:
> * no change
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> index 58871333737a..d40fde72a023 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec_file.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
> #define FDT_PROP_INITRD_END "linux,initrd-end"
> #define FDT_PROP_BOOTARGS "bootargs"
> #define FDT_PROP_KASLR_SEED "kaslr-seed"
> +#define FDT_PROP_RNG_SEED "rng-seed"
> +#define RNG_SEED_SIZE 128
>
> const struct kexec_file_ops * const kexec_file_loaders[] = {
> &kexec_image_ops,
> @@ -102,6 +104,23 @@ static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
> FDT_PROP_KASLR_SEED);
> }
>
> + /* add rng-seed */
> + if (rng_is_initialized()) {
> + void *rng_seed = kmalloc(RNG_SEED_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);

For 128 bytes, it would be better to use a buffer on the stack. That
avoids the possibility of the allocation failing.

> + get_random_bytes(rng_seed, RNG_SEED_SIZE);
> +
> + ret = fdt_setprop(dtb, off, FDT_PROP_RNG_SEED, rng_seed,
> + RNG_SEED_SIZE);
> + kfree(rng_seed);
> +
> + if (ret)
> + goto out;

If the RNG wasn't initialised, we'd carry on with a warning. Why do we
follow a different policy here?

Thanks,
Mark.

> +
> + } else {
> + pr_notice("RNG is not initialised: omitting \"%s\" property\n",
> + FDT_PROP_RNG_SEED);
> + }
> +
> out:
> if (ret)
> return (ret == -FDT_ERR_NOSPACE) ? -ENOMEM : -EINVAL;
> @@ -110,7 +129,8 @@ static int setup_dtb(struct kimage *image,
> }
>
> /*
> - * More space needed so that we can add initrd, bootargs and kaslr-seed.
> + * More space needed so that we can add initrd, bootargs, kaslr-seed, and
> + * rng-seed.
> */
> #define DTB_EXTRA_SPACE 0x1000
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>