Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/rdrand: implement sanity check for RDSEED

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 03:31:28PM +0300, Mikhail Paulyshka wrote:
> On the AMD Cyan Skillfish (Family 0x17 Model 0x47 Stepping 0x0), which 
> is a Zen2-based APU found on the AMD BC-250 board, there is a situation 
> where RDRAND works fine, but RDSEED generates FF. This leads to some 
> applications that use RDSEED to generate random numbers (such as 
> Qt and KDE) into a nearly unusable state.
> 
> Although AMD has fixed the Zen2 RDRAND issues in 2019 with a microcode update, 
> no such update has been released for the Family 0x17 Model 0x47 core.

What's the microcode level on that machine?

Also, send

cpuid -r

output pls.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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