Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: Don't default to HW_RANDOM when UML_RANDOM is the trigger

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sun Feb 09 2025 - 04:15:40 EST


On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 02:07:02PM +0100, Dragan Simic wrote:
> Since the commit 72d3e093afae (um: random: Register random as hwrng-core
> device), selecting the UML_RANDOM option may result in various HW_RANDOM_*
> options becoming selected as well, which doesn't make much sense for UML
> that obviously cannot use any of those HWRNG devices.
>
> Let's have the HW_RANDOM_* options selected by default only when UML_RANDOM
> actually isn't already selected. With that in place, selecting UML_RANDOM
> no longer "triggers" the selection of various HW_RANDOM_* options.
>
> Fixes: 72d3e093afae (um: random: Register random as hwrng-core device)
> Reported-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig | 76 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
> index e84c7f431840..283aba711af5 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig
> @@ -38,47 +38,47 @@ config HW_RANDOM_TIMERIOMEM
> config HW_RANDOM_INTEL
> tristate "Intel HW Random Number Generator support"
> depends on (X86 || COMPILE_TEST) && PCI
> - default HW_RANDOM
> + default HW_RANDOM if !UML_RANDOM

This is disgusting. Just remove all the defaults, and we can
add back the ones actually needed. Just remember to set the
default to something sane like HW_RANDOM && dependencies.

Cheers,
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