Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] hwrng: optee: fix wait use case

From: Sumit Garg
Date: Fri Jul 24 2020 - 09:22:26 EST


On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 14:16, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The current code waits for data to be available before attempting a
> second read. However the second read would not be executed as the
> while loop exits.
>
> This fix does not wait if all data has been read and reads a second
> time if only partial data was retrieved on the first read.
>
> This fix also does not attempt to read if not data is requested.

I am not sure how this is possible, can you elaborate?

>
> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: tidy up the while loop to avoid reading when no data is requested
>
> drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c
> index 5bc4700c4dae..a99d82949981 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c
> @@ -122,14 +122,14 @@ static int optee_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *buf, size_t max, bool wait)
> if (max > MAX_ENTROPY_REQ_SZ)
> max = MAX_ENTROPY_REQ_SZ;
>
> - while (read == 0) {
> + while (read < max) {
> rng_size = get_optee_rng_data(pvt_data, data, (max - read));
>
> data += rng_size;
> read += rng_size;
>
> if (wait && pvt_data->data_rate) {
> - if (timeout-- == 0)
> + if ((timeout-- == 0) || (read == max))

If read == max, would there be any sleep?

-Sumit

> return read;
> msleep((1000 * (max - read)) / pvt_data->data_rate);
> } else {
> --
> 2.17.1
>