[PATCH 0/4] random,x86,kvm: Add and use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED

[Andy Lutomirski]

virtio-rng is both too complicated and insufficient for initial rng
seeding.  It's far too complicated to use for KASLR or any other
early boot random number needs.  It also provides /dev/random-style
bits, which means that making guest boot wait for virtio-rng is
unacceptably slow, and doing it asynchronously means that
/dev/urandom might be predictable when userspace starts.

This introduces a very simple synchronous mechanism to get
/dev/urandom-style bits.

This is a KVM change: am I supposed to write a unit test somewhere?

Andy Lutomirski (4):
  x86,kvm: Add MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED and a matching feature bit
  random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64
  random: Seed pools from arch_get_slow_rng_u64 at startup
  x86,kaslr: Use MSR_KVM_GET_RNG_SEED for KASLR if available

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt  |  3 +++
 arch/x86/Kconfig                     |  4 ++++
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/aslr.c      | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/archslowrng.h   | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                   |  4 ++++
 drivers/char/random.c                | 14 +++++++++++++-
 include/linux/random.h               |  9 +++++++++
 10 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/archslowrng.h

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