[REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH] Revert "vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates"

[Alexander Graf]

[Adding CC list of original patch plus regression tracker]

Hi Jason,

On 18.04.24 13:48, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> This reverts commit ad6bcdad2b6724e113f191a12f859a9e8456b26d. I had
> nak'd it, and Greg said on the thread that it links that he wasn't going
> to take it either, especially since it's not his code or his tree, but
> then, seemingly accidentally, it got pushed up some months later, in
> what looks like a mistake, with no further discussion in the linked
> thread. So revert it, since it's clearly not intended.

Reverting this patch creates a user space visible regression compared to 
v6.8. Please treat it as such.

I'm slightly confused to see you passionate about this patch after you 
ghosted the conversation you referenced:


https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00d6172f-e291-4e96-9d3e-63ee8e60d556@xxxxxxxxxx/

The purpose of this uevent is to notify systemd[1][2] (or similar) that 
a VM clone event happened, so it can for example regenerate MAC 
addresses if it generated them on boot, regenerate its unique machine id 
or simply force rerequest a new DHCP lease.

I don't understand how there's any correlation or dependency to 
vgetrandom() or anything RNG in this and why getting vgetrandom() merged 
upstream is even something to talk about in the same line as this patch [3].

We had a lengthy, constructive conversation with Ted at LPC last year 
about the "PRNG and clone" use case and concluded that it's best for 
everyone to simply assume the system could be cloned at any point, hence 
always force intermix of RDRAND or comparable to any PRNG output. We 
since no longer need an event for that case.


Alex

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/26380
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZJGNREN4tLzQXOJr@gardel-login/
[3] 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHmME9pxc-nO_xa=4+1CnvbnuefbRTJHxM7n817c_TPeoxzu_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

#regzbot introduced: 3aadf100f93d8081

> Fixes: ad6bcdad2b67 ("vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531095119.11202-2-bchalios@xxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/virt/vmgenid.c | 2 --
>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virt/vmgenid.c b/drivers/virt/vmgenid.c
> index b67a28da4702..a1c467a0e9f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/virt/vmgenid.c
> +++ b/drivers/virt/vmgenid.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ static int vmgenid_add(struct acpi_device *device)
>   static void vmgenid_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
>   {
>   	struct vmgenid_state *state = acpi_driver_data(device);
> -	char *envp[] = { "NEW_VMGENID=1", NULL };
>   	u8 old_id[VMGENID_SIZE];
>   
>   	memcpy(old_id, state->this_id, sizeof(old_id));
> @@ -76,7 +75,6 @@ static void vmgenid_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
>   	if (!memcmp(old_id, state->this_id, sizeof(old_id)))
>   		return;
>   	add_vmfork_randomness(state->this_id, sizeof(state->this_id));
> -	kobject_uevent_env(&device->dev.kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
>   }
>   
>   static const struct acpi_device_id vmgenid_ids[] = {




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