Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Set the quality value

From: Kamil Konieczny
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 04:18:37 EST


Hi,

On 19.05.2020 23:25, Åukasz Stelmach wrote:
> The value was estimaded with ea_iid[1] using on 10485760 bytes read from
> the RNG via /dev/hwrng. The min-entropy value calculated using the most
> common value estimate (NIST SP 800-90P[2], section 6.3.1) was 7.964464.
>
> [1] https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=316f3d79-6cf9840e-316eb636-0cc47a312ab0-5f119f729b3ddc11&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fusnistgov%2FSP800-90B_EntropyAssessment

This link looks ugly and do not protect anything.
Can you just cut out that "protect2" thing and put proper direct link to github ?

> [2] https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-90b/final
>
> Signed-off-by: Åukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> index 32d9fe61a225..95669ece050f 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static int iproc_rng200_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> priv->rng.read = iproc_rng200_read,
> priv->rng.init = iproc_rng200_init,
> priv->rng.cleanup = iproc_rng200_cleanup,
> + priv->rng.quality = 1000,
>
> /* Register driver */
> ret = devm_hwrng_register(dev, &priv->rng);
>

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Best regards,
Kamil Konieczny
Samsung R&D Institute Poland