Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] arm64: Add support for SMCCC TRNG entropy source

From: Mark Brown
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 11:27:53 EST


On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:00:04PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:

> static inline bool __must_check arch_get_random_seed_long(unsigned long *v)
> {
> + struct arm_smccc_res res;
> +
> + /*
> + * We prefer the SMCCC call, since its semantics (return actual
> + * hardware backed entropy) is closer to the idea behind this
> + * function here than what even the RNDRSS register provides
> + * (the output of a pseudo RNG freshly seeded by a TRNG).
> + */

This logic...

> @@ -77,10 +117,20 @@ arch_get_random_seed_long_early(unsigned long *v)
> {
> WARN_ON(system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING);
>
> - if (!__early_cpu_has_rndr())
> - return false;
> + if (__early_cpu_has_rndr())
> + return __arm64_rndr(v);
> +
> + if (smccc_trng_available) {
> + struct arm_smccc_res res;
>
> - return __arm64_rndr(v);
> + arm_smccc_1_1_invoke(ARM_SMCCC_TRNG_RND64, 64, &res);
> + if ((int)res.a0 >= 0) {
> + *v = res.a3;
> + return true;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + return false;

...seems to also apply here but we prefer the RNDR instead of the SMCC.
We probably want to either do the same thing or add a comment saying
what's going on.

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