Re: [RFC] Randomness on confidential computing platforms

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Jan 29 2024 - 11:33:55 EST


On 1/26/24 05:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 3. Panic after enough re-tries of RDRAND/RDSEED instructions fail.
> Another DoS variant against the Guest.

I think Sean was going down the same path, but I really dislike the idea
of having TDX-specific (or CoCo-specific) policy here.

How about we WARN_ON() RDRAND/RDSEED going bonkers? The paranoid folks
can turn on panic_on_warn, if they haven't already.